W3C
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.
Carl Cargill (Adobe) and Matthias Schunter (Intel) serve as co-chairs of the Tracking Protection Working Group. The W3C Team Contact is Nick Doty.
Both the Tracking Preference Expression (DNT), and Tracking Compliance and Scope (TCS), are now W3C Candidate Recommendations. Implementation reports are welcome. If you wish to make comments regarding these documents, please send them to [email protected] (subscribe, archives). All comments are publicly archived; if you have not used W3C mailing lists in the past, you will need to approve archiving (instructions are sent via email auto-reply) before your comments will be distributed. You do not need to subscribe to the mailing list to send comments.
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Note: The group will occasionally update this schedule based on current progress. Future milestones are non-binding estimates. * The group is discussing specific exit criteria for the CR milestone which may affect this timeline. |
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| Specification | FPWD | LC | CR | PR | Rec | |
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| Tracking Preference Expression | September 2011 | April 2014 | December 2014 | March 2015 | June 2015 | |
| Tracking Preference Expression Definitions and Compliance | September 2011 | September 2014 | December 2014 | March 2015 | June 2015 | |
| Tracking Selection Lists | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | |
11 - 12 March 2013
Berlin, Germany
11 - 13 February, 2013
Cambridge, Massachusetts
3 - 5 October, 2012
Amsterdam, Netherlands
10 - 12 April, 2012
Washington, DC, USA
24 - 26 January 2012
Brussels, Belgium. Hosted by the European Commission.
31 October - 1 November 2011
Santa Clara, CA, USA
21-22 September 2011
Cambridge, MA, USA
Most recent minutes first; ordered left to right.
The chairs invite input documents for the Working Group to consider at its initial meeting. Please send possible documents to the working group mailing list. The following (non-exhaustive) list of relevant documents has been identified.
Additionally, please refer to the report and position papers from the W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy in April 2011.
We invite the submission of use cases and input documents to the group mailing list.