Cookie Topic Change

[drichardson]

FYI, I made a big change to an important topic today, but I'm not where where to discuss/announce this so I'm putting it here.

https://edit.tosdr.org/topics/25

I renamed the Cookie to Trackers, in order to explicitly include any kind of tracking technology, not just HTTP cookies.

Here's the new info:

Title

Trackers

Sub-title

All kinds of tracking, including cookies, session storage, and beacons.

Description

Covers any technology that allows services to track (identify over time, place, and between devices) a user. These technologies include but are not limited to:

• HTTP Cookies
• IP geolocation
• Browser Session Storage
• iOS Advertising IDs
• Device Fingerprinting
• Data de-anonymization/Data re-identification

[JesseWeinstein]

This makes a lot of sense. We need to clean up the individual cases, too; I haven't been approving points in those cases because I couldn't make sense of what the criteria were.

[drichardson]

By the way, there is overlap between Anonymity and Tracking and Trackers (formerly Cookies).

For example, Anonymity and Tracking has The service uses third party tracking pixels to track social media conversion, which I think definitely belongs in tracking.

Anonymity and Tracking are closely related, but definitely not the same. You can track a user and build a profile of them from clickstream interaction without knowing who they are.

I'm going to change Anonymity and Tracking to just Anonymity, and move the tracking specific Cases from Anonymity topic to Tracking topic.

[drichardson]

OK all done, check out:

• Anonymity
• Trackers

I also moved one Case under Personal Data: App required for this service requires broad device permissions, as this had more to do with levels of data access vs being anonymous or not (though again, there is definitely overlap between Personal Data and Anonymity).