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Kroes: EU can drive the cloud
In a speech at Davos, the European Union's digital agenda commissioner has argued that the EU is ideally placed to drive the adoption of the cloud
"Do-not-track today is still an aspiration rather than a reality," said Kroes. "And that is why I have called for agreement on a do-not-track standard by June of this year. I am happy that work on this is proceeding in the World Wide Web Consortium. But we need to act fast to turn do-not-track into a reality for all web users."
In June 2011, Kroes told web companies that they must agree on a do-not-track standard by June 2012, or face intervention by the European Commission.
Echoing her June 2011 statement, Kroes told the W3C meeting on Tuesday that the do-not-track standard needs to allow user control of data, and have the flexibility to cope with differing legal frameworks.
"When providers receive do-not-track signals from their users, how they need to respond may be different depending on whether the user is in Europe, the US or wherever," said Kroes. "So the system will need to adapt flexibly, depending on the jurisdiction in question."
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