May 18, 2012, 08.59 AM IST

Twitter agrees to adopt Do-Not-Track privacy option

Twitter will honor requests from users who do not want their online behavior tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with Web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data.

Source: Reuters
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Twitter agrees to adopt Do-Not-Track privacy option
Twitter will honor requests from users who do not want their online behavior tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with Web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data.


Twitter said it will officially support "Do Not Track," a standardized privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the US Federal Trade Commission, online privacy advocates and Mozilla, the non-profit developer of the Firefox Web browser.


Some browsers, including Firefox, Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer and Apple Inc's

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