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Web Tracking and User Privacy

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Date:: 28 April 2011, 00:00 – 29 April 2011, 23:59 Coordinated Universal Time
Location:: Princeton, New Jersey
Host:: Hosted by the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Website:: https://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/

Tracking (e.g., for behavioral advertising) has come to the forefront recently as part of the overall Web privacy conversation in the broader Web and policy community. Several software vendors (including Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google) are offering measures that are intended to permit users to opt out of this tracking, or to prevent tracking by Web sites that are known to engage in these practices. Similar technology is deployed in a number of plugins (including NoScript, AdBlock plus, TACO, and PrivacyChoice). As part of ongoing efforts in the area of user privacy on the Web, W3C is organizing a Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy.

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