3rd Face2Face of the W3C Do-Not-Track

2012/01/30 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

On Jan 24 – Jan26 we had a very successful W3C DNT meeting with approx 40 attendants at the European Commissions headquarters in Brussels:

  • The meeting has been kicked off by by John Leibowitz (chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission; transcript)
  • Dr. Carl-Christian Buhr from the cabinet of Neelie Kroes introduced the EU perspective and brought this video message on Do Not Track from Neelie Kroes
  • The Art 29 group formally send Rob van Eijk as their delegate to our team
  • Members from the FTC as well as the EC attended large portions of the meeting.
  • We achieved wide attendance including (but not limited to) Adobe, Apple, CDT, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, NAI, Opera, Paypal, W3C, and Yahoo.

We made substantial progress, have discussed and assigned all open issues (and closed many), and are now working on creating the corresponding text.

We were impressed by the wide coverage and the open and collaborative atmosphere that allowed us to achieve this progress.

More information can be found at the W3C Blog.

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W3C-Tracking Protection: Release of First Public Working Drafts

2011/11/14 by 1 Comment Print This Post Print This Post

Today, the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group has released its First Public Working Drafts (FPWD):

“To address rising concerns about privacy on the Web, W3C publishes today two first drafts for standards that allow users to express preferences about online tracking:

These documents are the early work of a broad set of stakeholders in the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group, including browser vendors, content providers, advertisers, search engines, and experts in policy, privacy, and consumer protection. W3C invites review of these early drafts, expected to become standards by mid-2012. Read the full press release and testimonials and learn more about Privacy.”

This release has triggered an entry in IBM’s Privacy Blog as well as a series of news items. My involvement in the W3C DNT Working group is partially supported by the EU TClouds Project.

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Co-Chair of W3C Tracking Protection Standardisation Group

2011/09/20 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

I’ve been invited to co-chair the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World-Wide Web Consortium.

The Tracking Protection Working Group is chartered to improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web tracking elements. The group seeks to standardize the technology and meaning of Do Not Track, and of Tracking Selection Lists.

My mission as the chair is to drive the consensus-based standardisation process. My personal goal is to ensure that the privacy requirements of individuals as well as the industry requirements are met by the emerging recommendations.

Our kick-off meeting on September 21+22 in Boston MA, managed to assemble many important stakeholders such as Apple, the Center of Democracy and Privacy, ComScore, the EFF, FTC (Ed Felten), Google, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Microsoft, Nielsen, and Yahoo in one room.

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CloudCycle project will be funded by German Government

2011/03/01 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

As announced on March 01, the German government will fund the CloudCycle project. I acted as editor of the project proposal. CloudCycle aims at enabling migration of cloud services as well as interoperation of cloud management. The homepage of CloudCycle can be found at www.cloudcycle.org.

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