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The World Wide Web Consortium’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has recently established a task force to create a set of privacy principles for the web. This initiative is part of the W3C’s ongoing efforts to promote and protect privacy on the web. The Privacy Principles document lays out a set of principles that aim to guide the […]
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PING 2021 Year in Review PING performed 24 privacy reviews in 2021 and provided guidance on several other APIs. PING privacy reviews resulted in privacy improvements in proposed specifications. Some examples include: Payment Request API: The specification identifies the potential for sites to use the API for tracking instead of payments and recommends requiring users’ consent as […]
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The W3C Privacy Interest Group (PING) had a terrific 2020. PING has more active members than ever before. PING has been joined by the Privacy Community Group in its mission to improve privacy on the Web. PING implemented a new and improved process for tracking, assigning, and following up on privacy reviews. But, most importantly, […]
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(This post is part of a series recapping the October 2018 W3C Strategic Highlights and includes some updates since that report.) This has been an exciting year for Web privacy and security activities at W3C: W3C held workshops to address the privacy, security, and usability challenges presented by powerful hardware sensors, device capabilities, and APIs (Permissions and User […]
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The working group will have a face-to-face meeting to kick off work on the level 2 specification on March 7th 2019 at Google’s offices at 345 Spear Street, San Francisco, 10:00 – 17:00. This is the week of the RSA conference. Draft minutes from the meeting.
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Chrome and Firefox now have public client-side implementations of the Web Authentication API (Working Draft version 7). Firefox’s implementation is in Firefox Nightly. It is scheduled to migrate to the Firefox Beta and Developer editions in March and to the release edition in May. Chrome’s implementation is hidden behind a flag in Chrome 65. J.C. […]
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Links to meeting minutes in 2018: January 3, 2018 January 10, 2018 January 17, 2018 No meeting January 24th (FIDO plenary). January 31, 2018 February 7, 2018 February 14, 2018 February 21, 2018 February 28, 2018 March 7, 2018 March 14, 2018 No meeting March 21st (IETF). March 28, 2018 No meeting April 4th (IIW). […]
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The WG has published Working Draft version 7 and intends that only editorial changes be made between this version and Candidate Recommendation. The WG is seeking wide review of the specification. Here is a list of changes since WD-04 as well as links to diffs.
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Links to meeting minutes in 2017: January 4, 2017 January 11, 2017 January 18, 2017 No meeting January 25th. February 1, 2017 February 8, 2017 February 13, 2017: face to face meeting in San Francisco February 22, 2017 March 1, 2017 March 8, 2017 March 15, 2017 March 22, 2017 No meeting March 29th (IETF). […]
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The Web Authentication Working Group will have a face-to-face meeting on February 13th in San Francisco during the week of the RSA Conference. Once again, Microsoft is hosting us in their office at 555 California St. Advance registration is required. Please fill out the registration form to tell us you are coming! We hope to […]
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