EU regulators side with Microsoft in IE10's 'Do Not Track' controversy

European regulators have urged an Internet standards-setting body to let Microsoft set users' preferences for the "Do Not Track" privacy feature in the upcoming Internet Explorer 10 (IE10). But the European Commission also asked the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) to require browser makers to present Do Not Track (DNT) options to users when they first install or run a browser, and allow them to change the default. "The standard should foresee that at the install or first use of the browser the owner should be informed of the importance of their DNT choice, told of the default setting and prompted or allowed to change that setting," Robert Madelin, who heads the European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate-General, said