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Here is an update on Tracking Protection Working Group progress: This week the group published new drafts of Tracking Compliance and Scope and Tracking Preference Expression (DNT). Today Chair Matthias Schunter announced a stable plan to reach Last Call. We are poised to announce new co-Chairs, replacing Peter Swire who announced last month his departure […]
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Today, the co-chairs of the Tracking Protection Working Group released
the group's
decision on base text for continued work. In progressing toward a
draft that could move the multi-stakeholder work on a consensus standard
for Do Not Track forward, the group reviewed and rejected a package
change proposal offered by the Digital Advertising Alliance and its
supporters. The decision re-affirms the Working Group's mission to
"improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for
expressing user preferences around Web tracking" in a consensus-based
multi-stakeholder process, and takes a significant step in focusing the
group's further work toward a consensus Do Not Track standard.
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Since I became co-chair of the Tracking Protection Working Group in late 2012, we have faced a metaphorically-apt series of weather challenges for our Face-to-Face meetings: a record snowstorm in Boston in February, heavy snow for our Global Considerations meeting...
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A blizzard of activity: that’s what we had at the Boston face-to-face of the Tracking Protection Working Group. Over the past two days, the group has successfully managed to identify a path toward fulfilling our W3C charter: we now have a roadmap to Last Call for a Do Not Track standard.
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The Tracking Protection Working Group has brought together players from the advertising and publishing ecosystems, browser makers, consumer groups, relevant governmental agencies and other stakeholders to forge a consensus solution for Do Not Track (DNT).
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Since we last talked about Do Not Track on this blog, the Tracking Protection Working Group has continued the hard work of making decisions and driving to consensus. The Working Group is now preparing for a face-to-face meeting in October. Furthermore, W3C is holding a broader-looking workshop to take place in November.
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W3C (and friends, like Nigel Shadbolt) will participate in the first edition of the Open Data Conference taking place on September 27, 2012 in Paris, France. This conference brings together an international set of experts to discuss current challenges as...
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We last blogged about the Tracking Protection Working Group in June, immediately after the group's face-to-face meeting in Bellevue. That meeting was productive and laid the ground work for further progress. The "Tracking Preference Expression" (DNT) header is now implemented...
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As mentioned last week, the difficult and at times controversial discussion of Do Not Track standardization continued with a three-day meeting of the Tracking Protection Working Group in Bellevue, Washington. I want to report briefly on the course of discussion and the progress made, including meaningful advances towards consensus on Do Not Track.
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