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The next version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer will come with a new feature that allows users to block third-party companies from tracking their online behavior. The new tool, called Tracking Protection, will be included in Internet Explorer 9, which will be released next year. Users will be able to create their own lists of targeted sites. The browser will then automatically block these sites from collecting information via cookies and other tracking mechanisms. Lists can be manually constructed by individual users, or by consumer advocacy groups, which can then make their own lists available for download. Microsoft's announcement comes just a few days after the Federal Trade Commission publicly called for an online 'Do Not Track List,' which is essentially what Explorer's new feature allows users to create. In a statement, FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz lauded Microsoft for applying the privacy principles his commission has endorsed. "Microsoft deserves enormous credit for taking a critical step toward providing consumers with more choice about who can track their online browsing," Leibowitz said. "Just as important, this announcement proves that technology is available to let consumers control tracking."
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Subscribe to commentsmuhammad shozaibDec 8th 2010 4:55PM
nice idea !!!!!!!
Veritas987Dec 8th 2010 6:24PM
Just as with the DO NO CALL list, which is blantantly ignored by telemarketers every day, the so called IE9 Tracking Protection won't work any better. If it's a Microsoft product my guess is that the Tracking Protection software will have so many coding errors that it will take them 10 years to correct it with updates and "hotfixes'. My suggestion is to buy your own protection such as Trend Micro, Kapersky, Zone Alarm, etc. Unlike Microsoft, their ONLY business is to create computer protection software.