Would you like to be tracked? (Semi Offical Announcement)

[Caaaaarrrrlll]

I'm not an expert on law, but have you checked that monitoring where people go and do on the internet is legal? Don't want you to get in any trouble xD

It is illegal unless it's solicited by his server list somewhere, like perhaps his privacy policy. However, it would also need to be noted on each of the servers that use his server list, otherwise players can still make an argument about it because they "didn't know that server was using his list so they didn't know they would be tracked".

I'm also not an expert on law, but that would make the most legal sense to me...

[Sciamancer]

There are plenty of companies that track your every movement online. It is not illegal. How do you think targeted advertising works?

Now, displaying those results, I have no clue about the legality of that, but I doubt the government cares about your privacy enough to enact a law that hurts its precious corporate sponsors.

[zer0k]

I don't think it would be illegal in the US, not sure about other countries.

[ryanteck]

Well the website would fall mainly under British (And EU I guess?) And possibly american laws.

I got told about MCBans which track and records a different set of data.

They record people with a ban level allowing bans from other servers to go across other servers.

They do have an interesting privacy policy which i might need to make my own version off,
Theres is at http://mcbans.com/privacy

[Lynxy]

Look at Google. Many sites use their statistic/ad tracking, so even if you never visit a Goggle site you are still tracked by them. They get away with it

[Sciamancer]

Look at Google. Many sites use their statistic/ad tracking, so even if you never visit a Goggle site you are still tracked by them. They get away with it

Ahh, but are these tracking results available to the public?

[ryanteck]

Nope, but they use them tons to help third partys and themselfs out. A demo can be seen at http://mc-serverlist.co.uk/searchuser.php?username=ryanteck

[Sciamancer]

You play another server way more than innectis? :O
TRAITOR. That is all.

[ryanteck]

Depending I have been playing it just because its an industrial craft server then yeh I have.
At the moment innectis can get boring from time to time. And another main developer of the site owns the server so I can code and chat to him.

Problem?

[ryanteck]

Well the system seems liked across multiple servers.

Any more thoughts before i lock this topic?

[Sciamancer]

I still dislike it. It's like having a public billboard displaying all the shops you've been to. What if one of those shops happens to be a whorehouse?

[ryanteck]

Well its shown!

But we don't allow whorehouse servers. Sorry to break your dreams...

You will be able to opt out soon

[Lynxy]

Btw I think your opt-out should hide all server's you've been to from the public - don't allow them to hide specific servers (so all or nothing). Perhaps data collection could still occur but not be shown to public?

[ryanteck]

Data collection will always happen, it would be more work to make it not collect.

We will just make it show nothing if opted out

[TheJudged]

I'm Fine with this no cookies tho.