Privacy Advocates and Advertisers at Odds Over Web Tracking

[Melvin Carvalho]

“It seems the process has been hijacked by commercial interests,” said Jacob Kohnstamm, the chairman of the European Commission’s top privacy panel, the Article 29 Working Group. Mr. Kohnstamm’s panel is an observer at the meetings, whose participants included about 40 Internet companies, advertising groups and privacy advocates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/technology/privacy-advocates-and-advertisers-at-odds-over-web-tracking.html?pagewanted=all

All the more need for freedom from data monopolies?