Those Internet firms that took up the Federal Trade Commission’s mantle to create a do-not-track (DNT) standard, which is receiving comments until October 7, “are deciding on the rules of the game,” Allen Grunes writes for Politico. “What started as a tool intended to increase consumer protection now looks more like a way for the big players to limit competition,” Grunes writes. The DNT standard is not final, he notes, “and a closer look at what’s actually happening with the standard gives us a chance to fix it—and even imagine a fairer new version that would protect both consumers and competition.”
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