Microsoft to beef up Internet Explorer privacy features

Last week, Big Brother Watch Director Alex Deane attended a Which? internet privacy forum in which he stated:

"If you look at Google Street View there’s an opt-out button for your house or whatever but it’s translucent and tiny and on the bottom left hand corner of the screen so most people can’t find it. We want such a button to live in your browser oolbar alongside the forward and back button"

Now, only days after the conference, Microsoft has announced that they will be incorporating a new "do not track" button into their new Internet Explorer 9 web browser. In order to guarantee privacy, the company are proposed an "opt-in feature called Tracking Protection Lists which will the browser will refer to in order to decide which web sites are able to track the user and which should be denied".

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Comments

[Purlieu]

Hopefully this "do not track" button will work better than the "do not send details of my system to Microsoft" button that came with Win98