Do Not Track

A Yahoo news story disclosed that privacy and consumer organizations are asking that the Federal Trade Commission protect internet users through a do not track list which would prevent others, such as advertisers, from tracking your online activity. It is a long overdue measure needed to protect people's privacy as well as limiting the possiblity that personal information will be used for fraudulent or other illegal purposes.

The model for this is the currently operational do not call registry which protects against unwanted calls from telemarketers. The do not call registry was created in 2003 and now contains about 145 million telephone numbers.