Mar 4, 2013
How privacy is influencing product decisions across the web, as captured in a 35K foot flyover from the NY Times. The sweep is certainly impressive when viewed this quickly, and there is benefit in standing back and appreciating the scale, especially for folks like us that are locked in the 'ground game.'
Already, said Alex Fowler, Mozilla’s chief privacy officer, nearly 12 percent of desktop users of Firefox and 14 percent of Firefox users on Google’s Android mobile operating system have turned on the Do Not Track signal. “They’re asking for a different level of privacy on your service,” he said. “You have to listen to that. It’s critical to your business.”