Twitter Dumps Do Not Track, Gives Users New Powers Over Data

Twitter has changed its privacy rules and, along with them decided to abandon Do Not Track (DNT), the website privacy policy, despite being among the first companies to adopt it. 

In short, Twitter no longer promises to protect people from being tracked as they browse the Internet. 

Back when Do Not Track was created, it seemed like the best idea. All you had to do was enable DNT on your browser and hope that at least some of the websites you were visiting got that signal from your browser and ignored all other websites you visited by not placing or reading advertising cookies on your device. 

This initiative was supposed to protect people's online privacy by not collecting and storing any information about them without their explicit permission. 

That was back in 2012 and it failed from the get-go. Advertisers, for their part, have their own interpretation of the rules. While they stopped serving targeted ads based on people's browsing history, they still collec...