Team report on Privacy Principles as a Statement Formal Objection

Editor: Yves Lafon

Status: Final

Visibility: Public

Procedural History

Formal Objections

  1. Formal Objection #1
  2. Formal Objection #2

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Resolved Formal Objections

Despite attempts to resolve the Formal Objections, none were resolved.

Unresolved Formal Objections

Formal Objection #1

The Objector agreed to meet with parts of the TAG to discuss how to resolve that Formal Objection, this led to several issues opened on the Document.

Those issues are tracked on GitHub along with proposed resolution Pull Requests.

The Task Force did agree on some points but not all, either by not having consensus, or by having consensus against.

After discussion with the Objector, the remaining blocking points are PR #436 that was merged but later reverted by merging PR #451, and PR #438 that was not merged.

Response from the Objector:

https://github.com/w3ctag/privacy-principles/pull/438

https://github.com/w3ctag/privacy-principles/pull/436

Formal Objection #2

The core of this Formal Objection has been resolved by the decision of the W3C Council on the Formal Objection to the proposed Privacy Working Group Charter (See Team's Recommendation).

[Member A]'s comment cited in the Formal Objection was not considered as actionable, the Team asked [Member A]'s AC representative to raise more detailed issues to highlight his concerns, none has been registered.

Team Analysis

The remaining issue for the first Formal Objection is based on a different view on what is the main way of enabling payment of services, one side arguing that the only way to monetize content is through advertising and user data processing in general, while the view of the TF allows for other way of renumeration.

The second objection was partially addressed in a previous Council. However, the requirement for "legislative suggestions" appears impractical to fulfill within a reasonable timeframe, given the global scope of this organization.

Team Recommendation

The Team let the Council deliberate on the merits of the first Formal Objection, but recommend that the second be overruled. This is because the first part was already resolved in a previous Council, and developing potential legislative suggestions falls outside the scope of this document.