All entries tagged: anti-circumvention

What The Associated Press’ tracking beacon is — and what it isn’t

So what about THE BEACON?
When The Associated Press said last month that it was building a “news registry” of AP content, most reaction focused on the so-called “tracking beacon” that will monitor usage across the web. I use quotation marks because, well, those are metaphors for technology that’s still in development: The AP document we’ve [...]