What Does EarthLink Say?
EarthLink’s Vice President & Chief Privacy Officer and I have swapped eMail and chatted on the phone. (Happily, this was a much nicer conversation than those I had with Real Networks’ privacy officer last year.) In addition to providing the tag field layout shown above, Les Seagraves brought up these additional points: They do not currently, and never have, used this information in any way. They plan to someday use this information to tailor their web site presentations to best match the user’s environment. They would not ever use this information to identify an individual user or for any other purpose than to deliver a customized web site. They are considering proposing this header structure as an optional enhancement to the public HTTP specification. What is Your Browser Transmitting? Whether or not you are using an EarthLink browser, you are welcome to use a feature of our second-generation ShieldsUP! system to examine the “HTTP Request Headers” being sent by your browser. Keep an e
