W3C Tracking Protection Working Group

The Tracking Protection Working Group is chartered to improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web tracking elements. The group seeks to standardize the technology and meaning of Do Not Track, and of Tracking Selection Lists.

Carl Cargill (Adobe), Justin Brookman (CDT) and Matthias Schunter (Intel) serve as co-chairs of the Tracking Protection Working Group. The W3C Team Contact is Nick Doty.

Meetings

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Next teleconference

4 December 2013, 9am PT, 12pm ET, 6pm CET
Teleconferences are held Wednesdays at 9am/12pm/6pm

+1.617.761.6200, conference code TRACK (87225)
irc.w3.org, channel #dnt

Resources

Wiki | Tracker
Chairs on moving forward
Chair's plan to get to Last Call
Open Calls for Objections:
Past Calls for Objections:
- What Base Text to Use
  (results; decision; explanatory memo)
- Tri-part Choice Requirement
  (results; decision)
Formal Objection Status

Timeline

Specification	FPWD	LC	CR	PR	Rec
Note: The group will occasionally update this schedule based on current progress. Future milestones are non-binding estimates. * The group is discussing specific exit criteria for the CR milestone which may affect this timeline.
Tracking Preference Expression	September 2011	July 2013	October 2013	January 2014	April 2014
Tracking Preference Expression Definitions and Compliance	September 2011	July 2013	October 2013	January 2014	April 2014
Tracking Selection Lists	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Past meetings

Eighth Face-to-Face

6-8 May 2013
Sunnyvale, California

Agenda
Minutes: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Global Considerations Task Force Face-to-Face

11 - 12 March 2013
Berlin, Germany

Seventh Face-to-Face

11 - 13 February, 2013
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Agenda and slides
Attendees
Minutes: 11 February | 12 February | 13 February
Breakout group minutes

Sixth Face-to-Face

3 - 5 October, 2012
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Agenda
Minutes: October 3 | October 4 | October 5

Fifth Face-to-Face

20 - 22 June, 2012
Bellevue, WA, USA

Agenda
Minutes: 20 June | 21 June | 22 June

Fourth Face-to-Face

10 - 12 April, 2012
Washington, DC, USA

Agenda
Minutes: 10 April | 11 April | 12 April

Third Face-to-Face

24 - 26 January 2012
Brussels, Belgium. Hosted by the European Commission.

Agenda
Computers, Privacy & Data Protection, 25-27 January
Minutes: 24 January | 25 January | 26 January

Second Face-to-Face

31 October - 1 November 2011
Santa Clara, CA, USA

Initial Face-to-Face

21-22 September 2011
Cambridge, MA, USA

Agenda
Logistics for live and remote attendees
Draft minutes: 9/21 | 9/22

Past teleconferences

Most recent minutes first; ordered left to right. Minutes with a "DRAFT" heading may not have been cleaned up yet.

Input Documents

The chairs invite input documents for the Working Group to consider at its initial meeting. Please send possible documents to the working group mailing list. The following (non-exhaustive) list of relevant documents has been identified.

The FTC staff report that calls on industry to create a Do Not Track mechanism
FTC guidelines for behavioral targeting
IAB Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising
Neelie Kroes, EU Commission, Online privacy - reinforcing trust and confidence
Do Not Track Cookbook: approaches to data collection in DNT-friendly ways
IETF proposal for Do Not Track
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) discussion of Do Not Track
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) DNT proposal
Mozilla Do Not Track Field Guide
Microsoft Web Tracking Protection, member submission to W3C

Additionally, please refer to the report and position papers from the W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy in April 2011.

We invite the submission of use cases and input documents to the group mailing list.