TPWG Charter

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With the tightening of the requirement for consent, the right to object, right to amend/modify/erase driven by the GDPR in Europe and the (initially Transatlantic) PrivacyShield, makes it advisable that the charter for this group be extended for at least another year. The building-blocks in the TPE, for example the Tracking Status Resource, support many of these requirements, and can clearly be enhanced to support the others, and this WG is the obvious place where these can be discussed and hopefully standardised.

The rising popularity of Ad Blockers and other Content Blocking applications, which can be destructive in the way they arbitrarily inhibit aspects of the web platform, also point to the need for protocol elements that can communicate user preferences, and the TPE or something similar to it would help with this.

The TPE has been implemented on several clients and servers as described in the Implementation Report https://www.w3.org/wiki/Privacy/TPWG/TPE_Implementation_Report

The Tracking Exception API has been supported natively and in user agent extensions, and has been supported by thousands of sites, including those run by major consumer brand companies, in most European countries since 2013. A number of these sites are extending their support for the TPE protocol elements in the near future.

I hope the W3C recognises this and extends the group charter for another year.





Mike O'Neill
Technical Director
Baycloud Systems
Oxford Centre for Innovation
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1BY
Tel. 01865 735619
Fax: 01865 261401

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