Privacy/TPWG
Tracking Protection Working Group
Info on the Tracking Protection Working Group is maintained on the group home page. The group uses this wiki for collecting certain quickly-changing resources; participants should feel free to make changes to help the group as a whole.
You can also see a list of past background memos and an ongoing list of editorial corrections, collected on the wiki.
Current work items:
Important links
Important dates
Change proposals
Change proposals currently under discussion
- ISSUE-31: Change Proposal on data minimization (may be resolved)
- ISSUE-134: Change Proposal Short Term (put on hold for review)
- ISSUE-203: Change Proposal Tracking Third Party Compliance (in progress by editor)
- ISSUE-210: Change Proposal Existing Controls (may be resolved)
- ISSUE-234: Remove general personalization prohibition (resolved)
- ISSUE-236: Remove profiling prohibition for frequency capping (editorial)
PHASES to resolve issues:
M0 (announcement): Initial call for change proposals; All change proposals should be drafted
M1 (discussion): Initial change proposals have been submitted; Discussion on change proposals; Call for final list of change proposals
M2 (discussion): List of change proposals is frozen; Discussion whether clear consensus emerges for one change proposal
M3 (announcement): Call for objections to validate / determine consensus
M5 (deadline): Deadline for inputs to call for objections (2 weeks after M3); Analysis starts
M7 (announcement): Results are announced
Change proposals under Call for Objections
List of all change proposals
- ISSUE-24: Change Proposal Security
- ISSUE-119: Change Proposal No Tracking
- ISSUE-148: Change Proposal DNT: 0
- ISSUE-209: Change Proposal Scope (this is editorial)
- ISSUE-213: Change Proposal Partial Compliance
- ISSUE-214: Change Proposal Add to Last Working Draft
- ISSUE-230: Define Web browsing history
- ISSUE-231: Change Proposals Principles for Permitted Uses
Resolved change proposals
- Change Proposal Data Hygiene Tracking of URL Data ISSUE-215
- Change Proposal Transience & Collect/Retain/Use/Share ISSUE-204 ISSUE-16
- Change Proposal Party Definitions ISSUE-10
- Change Proposal Tracking Definition ISSUE-5
- Revise network interaction definition ISSUE-228 ISSUE-217 CfO results page
- ISSUE-197: Proposals on Disregard signal resolved by consensus text proposal
- ISSUE-151: Proposals on UA requirement to handle exceptions CfO results page
- ISSUE-153: Proposals on limitations for add-ons CfO results page
- ISSUE-239: Proposals on status URL array for compliance regimes
- ISSUE-240: Proposals on the definition of context
- ISSUE-241: Proposals on elements for 1st and 3rd party use
- ISSUE-208: Change Proposal Unknowing - Closed with consensus for the current text in TCS
- ISSUE-206: Change Proposal Service Provider
- ISSUE-202: Change Proposal Geolocation
- ISSUE-207: Change Proposal Disregarding
- ISSUE-205: Change Proposal User Agent Compliance
- ISSUE-170: Change Proposal First Party Compliance
- ISSUE-97: Change Proposals on link shorteners and ID providers
- ISSUE-219: Limitations on use in Third Party Context
- ISSUE-188: Change Proposal Deidentification
- ISSUE-25: Change Proposal Audience Measurement