FCC swats down petition for mandatory Do Not Track support

The Federal Communications Commission is steering clear of requests to make Do Not Track support mandatory on sites such as Google and Facebook.
Advocacy group Consumer Watchdog had petitioned the FCC to step in with a rulemaking process, in hopes of giving Do Not Track some teeth. Currently, Do Not Track serves as nothing more than a polite request not to be followed around the web by ad trackers. Sites whose business models rely on targeted advertising tend not to comply.
On Friday, the FCC d