   From: Rob van Eijk <rob@blaeu.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012
23:50:21 +0200 To: <public-tracking@w3.org> Message-ID:
<68aa41006acd521d1abe83d69b65cef9@xs4all.nl> Let's talk more
about harm (my_def:= violation of the user's privacy)  in the
context of the permitted uses together with safeguards (no
secondary use, data minimization and transparency, reasonable
security,  no personalization) to reduce the impact of the
permitted uses on the  privacy of the user. Shane already
adressed proportionality. We talked  about subsidiarity, as in
browser based privacy friendly alternatives  before at length,
so I will not touch on those now. We also heard that  in the EU
storing/reading unique identifiers to/from the browser without
explicit consent is a violation of the user's privacy. We also
talked  about the mis-use of the term anonymous data. In my
view, unique  identifiers that can be used to follow user
behavior across sites MUST  be treated as personal data and a
company MUST make representations   To me harm c