Workshop Agenda
Workshop sessions will focus on discussion. Presentations will be brief, and the moderators will enforce time limits.
The brunch reception on the first day, and breakfast and lunch break on the second day will be at Sherrerd Hall. The main proceedings will be at 104 Computer Science Building.
Note: This agenda lists the papers' authors. In some cases, papers are presented by different individuals.
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Thursday April 28, 2011
11:00 Brunch reception
12:30 Introduction and discussion of agenda, process, and goals
Moderator: Roessler
13:00 Definitions, requirements, and scope
What are our goals? What type(s) of tracking should we give users control over? How do we define key terms? Where does a consensus exist and where do we need further discussion?
Moderator: Cranor
Part I: What are users' expectations about tracking and tracking controls?
- Position paper for the
W3C Do Not Track Workshop (slides)
by Aleecia McDonald - Trackers
Don't Track People, People Track People (slides)
by Andy Kahl, Colin O'Malley (Evidon) - Summary Comparison of
universal Opt-out mechanisms for Web tracking (slides)
by Alissa Cooper (CDT)
Part II: What types of tracking should be in scope? Should the scope be limited to certain tracking purposes or mechanisms? Should the scope include first-party tracking?
- Identifiers and Online
Tracking (slides)
by Ashkan Soltani - Where is the
Comprehensive Online Privacy Framework? (slides)
by Bil Corry, Andy Steingruebl (Paypal) - Facebooks's position
paper on "Do Not Track" for W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and
User Privacy
by Michael Richter, Tobie Langel (Facebook) - Adobe Position Paper on
Privacy and Tracking (slides)
by MeMe Jacobs Rasmussen (Adobe) - Re: Proposal for
Browser Based Do-Not-Track Functionality (slides)
by Omar Tawakol (BlueKai)
- Position paper for the
W3C Do Not Track Workshop (slides)
15:00 break
15:30 Mechanisms
What mechanisms have been proposed? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? How do they meet the proposed requirements?
Moderator: Roessler
Part I: Do Not Track Header and Tracking Protection Lists
- Do Not Track as a
Generative Approach to Web Privacy (slides)
by Jonathan Mayer (Stanford Center for Internet and Society) - Position Paper: Do Not
Track (slides)
by Alex Fowler, Sid Stamm (Mozilla) - Position
Paper (slides)
by Steven Vine (Datran Media) - Web Tracking
Protection (slides)
by Adrian Bateman (Microsoft) - Empowering
Users to Express a "Do Not Track" Rule: A Step Toward Conveying
User Privacy Preferences (slides)
by John Morris, Alissa Cooper (CDT)
Part II: Opt-outs, granular control and multiple mechanisms. How can we provide granular controls that allow users to partially opt-out or opt-out at only certain sites? How do we avoid multiple systems sending conflicting signals?
- Web Tracking and
User Privacy Workshop - Importance of User
Intent (slides)
by Frederick Hirsch (Nokia) - Accurately Communicating the
Do Not Track User Preference (slides)
by Harlan Yu (CITP, Princeton) - Position
Paper for W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User
Privacy (slides)
by Li Li, Wu Chou (Avaya Labs Research) - W3C Workshop on Tracking
and User Privacy. Comments of the Software & Information
Industry Association (SIIA)
by David LeDuc (SIIA) - W3C Proposal - DAA DNT
Hybrid Do Not Track Headers and CLEAR Ad
Notice (slides)
by Shane Wiley (Yahoo!)
- Do Not Track as a
Generative Approach to Web Privacy (slides)
17:30 break
17:45-18:45 Related research
Moderator: Cranor
- Identifying and Preventing
Conditions for Web Privacy Leakage (slides)
by Craig Wills (Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute) - Do-not-track as a
driver for transparency of social networking advertisement
practices? (slides)
by Jens Grossklags (The Pennsylvania State University) - Browser
Vendors: fight for your users
by Thomas Lowenthal (CITP, Princeton) Proposal for a "Down-the-Chain" Notification Requirement in Online Behavioral Advertising Research and Developmentby David Thaw, Neha Gupta, Ashok Agrawala (University of Maryland College Park)
- Identifying and Preventing
Conditions for Web Privacy Leakage (slides)
19:00 Dinner
Friday April 29
08:00 am Breakfast available
09:00-10:00 am User experience
What should the user experience look like? How much does the users need to be aware of? How much control should they have? What should defaults look like? What is the role of user testing?
Moderator: Cranor
- Transparency and Choice:
Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Online World
by Alma Whitten, Sean Harvey, Ian Fette, Betsy Masiello, Jochen Eisinger, Jane Horvath (Google) - Content Based Do Not
Track mechanism (slides)
by Vincent Toubiana, Helen Nissenbaum - Toward Privacy Standards Based on Empirical
Studies (slides)
by Serge Egelman, Erika McCallister (NIST) - Toward An Empirical
Investigation of Usability and Effectiveness of Do-Not-Track
Tools
by Yang Wang, Lorrie Faith Cranor (CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab (CUPS), Carnegie Mellon University)
- Transparency and Choice:
Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Online World
10:00 break
10:30-12:45 Adoption, Compliance, and Enforcement
Are mechanisms enforceable under current laws? By what authority? how can self-regulatory programs help? Is additional legislation needed? What about the world outside the US? How can we overcome adoption and enforcement problems? What is the interaction between technical standards and regulation or self-regulation in this space?
Part I: How can compliance be encouraged, monitored, and enforced through self-regulatory mechanisms?
Moderator: Roessler
- Future of Privacy
Forum W3C Do Not Track Position Paper - Request to
Participate
by Jules Polonetsky (Future of Privacy Forum) - TRUSTe Position Paper for W3C
Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy (slides)
by Kevin Trilli (TRUSTe) - Trackers
Don't Track People, People Track People (slides)
by Andy Kahl, Colin O'Malley (Evidon) - Position
Paper
by Gil Resh (DoubleVerify)
Part II: How would regulators encourage, monitor and enforce compliance?
Moderator: Cranor
- An Evaluation of
Self-Regulation of Consumer Tracking and Profiling: Deficiencies
and Recommendations for Improvement (slides)
by Kenya Chow, Nicholas Petersen, Chris Jay Hoofnagle (Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic) - FTC perspective (slides)
by Ed Felten - Security and Fraud
Exceptions Under Do Not Track (slides)
by Chris Soghoian (Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Indiana University) - Online
Tracking, Targeting and Profiling: A Canadian Privacy
Perspective (slides)
by Andrew S. Patrick (Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada) - Do Not Track. An
Attempt to Frame the Debate. (slides)
by Hannes Tschofenig, Rob van Eijk
- Future of Privacy
Forum W3C Do Not Track Position Paper - Request to
Participate
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Standardization
Moderator: Roessler
- Tracking
Transparency (slides)
by Wendy Seltzer (Berkman Center, Harvard, and CITP, Princeton) - Tracking
to Consensus: Coordination of Policy and Technical Standardization
in Web Privacy Efforts (slides)
by Sue Glueck, Craig Shank (Microsoft) - Position Paper: Do Not
Track (slides)
by Alex Fowler, Sid Stamm (Mozilla) - IETF perspective
by Peter Saint-Andre (CISCO; IETF Application Area Director)
- Tracking
Transparency (slides)
14:45 Next Steps
Agenda to be determined in more detail after Thursday's program
16:30 Adjourn