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.

The W3C Team Contact for the Tracking Protection Working Group is Nick Doty. Aleecia M. McDonald (Mozilla) and Matthias Schunter (IBM) serve as co-chairs of the group.

Meetings

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Next teleconference

15 February 2012, 9am PT, 12pm ET, 6pm CET
Teleconferences are held every Wednesday at 9am/12pm/6pm.

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

Timeline

Specification	FPWD	LC	CR	PR	Rec
Note: The group will occasionally update this schedule based on current progress.
Tracking Preference Expression	November 2011	TBD	April 2012	May 2012	June 2012
Tracking Preference Expression Definitions and Compliance	November 2011	TBD	April 2012	May 2012	June 2012
Tracking Selection Lists	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Past meetings

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 Meeting

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

Initial Face-to-Face Meeting

21-22 September 2011
Cambridge, MA, USA

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

Past teleconferences

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.