W3C
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.
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TBD (via email) March 2015 9am PT, 12pm ET, 5pm CET
Teleconferences are held as needed on Wednesdays at 9am/12pm/6pm
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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. |
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| Specification | FPWD | LC | CR | PR | Rec | |
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| Tracking Preference Expression | September 2011 | April 2014 | December 2014 | March 2015 | June 2015 | |
| Tracking Preference Expression Definitions and Compliance | September 2011 | September 2014 | December 2014 | March 2015 | June 2015 | |
| Tracking Selection Lists | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | |
On Thursday, April 24, the Working Group published its Last Call Working Draft of the Tracking Preference Expression (DNT). The Call for Comments on the specification ended on June 18. We thank everyone, who has submitted technical reviews and comments. All feedback is publicly archived. The Chairs and the Working Group will issue written responses to all comments received in the upcoming weeks.
11 - 12 March 2013
Berlin, Germany
11 - 13 February, 2013
Cambridge, Massachusetts
3 - 5 October, 2012
Amsterdam, Netherlands
10 - 12 April, 2012
Washington, DC, USA
24 - 26 January 2012
Brussels, Belgium. Hosted by the European Commission.
31 October - 1 November 2011
Santa Clara, CA, USA
21-22 September 2011
Cambridge, MA, USA
Most recent minutes first; ordered left to right.
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.
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.