Re: [PING] Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications - publishing as an Interest Group Note

Nice work everyone. A couple of comments:

There is a brief mention of using "environmental" fingerprinting (e.g.  
finding out where in the world you are by listening in, tracking location,  
etc), but it isn't covered at all in section 3.2 which only talks about  
active fingerprinting from information that exists with no environmental  
context. I think that's a major omission that should be fixed.

The latest W3C Recommendation on HTML is actually HTML 5.2 - which  
contains a large number of improvements over the HTML 5.0 specification.  
If you link to a Rec, it should be that one.

cheers

Chaals

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:53:29 +0100, Christine Runnegar <runnegar@isoc.org>  
wrote:

> Dear PING,
>
> A very big thank you to Nick Doty for single-handedly leading the work  
> on Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications.
>
> The draft is here: https://w3c.github.io/fingerprinting-guidance/
>
> Thank you also to everyone who provided input on the document at its  
> various stages.
>
> As a reminder, this document is a draft Interest Group Note to provide  
> best practices to Web specification authors on mitigating the privacy  
> impacts of browser fingerprinting, developed by the Privacy Interest  
> Group (PING). PING has collaborated with the Technical Architecture  
> Group (TAG) on this guidance. Since the last version: the list of best  
> practices has been expanded and made more specific; guidance has been  
> provided on how to evaluate the severity of fingerprinting surface; and,  
> additional references and examples have been provided.
>
> We have addressed the outstanding issues in Github and consider this  
> draft ready for publication.
>
> If you have any last minute comments, please share them on this list by  
> Monday 25 February 2019.
>
> Christine and Tara (chairs)
>
>


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