Mark McCreary was quoted in the Warren's Washington
Internet Daily article "Websites Work to Comply with
California's DNT Law." While the full text can be found in
the January 2, 2014, issue of Warren's Washington Internet
Daily, a synopsis is noted below.
The California Do Not Track law mandates any website or mobile
app that's accessible to California residents –
essentially all U.S. websites – must state in its privacy
policy whether it honors a user's DNT request. But it
doesn't require websites to do so, just to state whether it
will or won't, said McCreary, who has helped clients comply
with the law.
"I consider this law somewhat of a narrow issue and
it's very easy to comply with," McCreary said. Most of his
clients have altered their privacy policies to say they're not
going to honor DNT requests, he said. "It doesn't surprise
me. You see that often from business when they don't really
know what to make of the new laws and what it could mean in
