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 (Invited Expert) and Matthias Schunter (Intel) serve as
co-chairs of the Tracking Protection Working Group. The W3C Team Contact is Nick Doty.
Call for Comments
On 14 July 2015, the Working Group published a Last Call Working
Draft of the Tracking Compliance and Scope specification. Comments and
reviews are invited by 7 October 2015. If you wish to make comments regarding
this document, please send them to public-tracking-comments@w3.org
(subscribe,
archives).
All comments are publicly archived; if you have not used W3C mailing lists in
the past, you will need to approve archiving (instructions are sent via email
auto-reply) before your comments will be distributed. You do not need to
subscribe to the mailing list to send comments. Contact Nick Doty, Team Contact, with any problems
submitting comments.
The Tracking Protection Working Group invites broad community
review, especially of technical requirements and dependencies.
Reviewers are encouraged to comment on the extent to which technical
requirements of the group's charter have been met and how significant
dependencies with groups inside and outside W3C have been satisfied.
The Working Group will evaluate all comments received and determine
whether or how the specification needs to be modified in light of the
comments. Comments will be most useful in identifying particular
problems with the specification that might inhibit adoption, or where
this specification fails to further goals of user privacy and user
control, and whether this specification creates or does not otherwise
resolve dependencies with other technical standards, practices, or
processes. The Chairs of the Working Group will issue written responses
to all comments received.
Meetings
Subscribe to the public meetings calendar: iCalendar | HTML
Next teleconference
TBD (via email)
Teleconferences are held as needed on Wednesdays at 9am/12pm/6pm
Resources
Timeline
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
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FPWD
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LC
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CR
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PR
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Rec
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Tracking Preference Expression
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September 2011
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April 2014 |
December 2014 |
March 2015 |
June 2015 |
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Tracking Preference Expression Definitions and Compliance
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September 2011
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September 2014 |
December 2014 |
March 2015 |
June 2015 |
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Tracking Selection Lists
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TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD
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TBD |
Past meetings
Eighth Face-to-Face
6-8 May 2013
Sunnyvale, California
Global Considerations Task Force Face-to-Face
11 - 12 March 2013
Berlin, Germany
Seventh Face-to-Face
11 - 13 February, 2013
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sixth Face-to-Face
3 - 5 October, 2012
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fifth Face-to-Face
20 - 22 June, 2012
Bellevue, WA, USA
Fourth Face-to-Face
10 - 12 April, 2012
Washington, DC, USA
Third Face-to-Face
24 - 26 January 2012
Brussels, Belgium. Hosted by the European Commission.
Second Face-to-Face
31 October - 1 November 2011
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Initial Face-to-Face
21-22 September 2011
Cambridge, MA, USA
Past teleconferences
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.
