Fwd: Workshop Report: W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent

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> From: xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
> Subject: Workshop Report: W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent
> Date: June 17, 2019 15:20:24 GMT+8
> To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
> Cc: chairs@w3.org
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> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
> Chairs,
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> The report from the W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent, held in late 2018 in San Diego [1], is now available:
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>     https://www.w3.org/Privacy/permissions-ws-2018/report.html
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> This report contains a brief summary and collects highlights from the individual sessions, with links to the presentation slides. More detailed minutes are also available [2].
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> One of the take-aways was that some features may simply too dangerous even when gated behind permissions prompts – when we add new features to the web platform, we need to ask “should we do this (at all)”.
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> We recognized that users suffer from ‘permission fatigue’ (or, perhaps, ‘prompt fatigue’), and the workshop explored several models for avoiding prompts:
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> * Implicit consent - as exemplified by the File Access API and drag-and-drop.
> * Installation ceremonies as an indicator of trust (the “casual web” v. the “installed web”).
> * Using engagement as a metric of trust. This has significant flaws - people frequently use web sites that they do not trust.
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> Another outcome of the workshop was “Adding another permission? A guide” [3], a whitepaper for feature developers written Program Committee member Nick Doty based on the discussions at the workshop.
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> We thank our host, Qualcomm, the Program Committee, and all participants for making this event possible.
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> If you have further questions, please contact Samuel Weiler <weiler@w3.org>.
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> For Wendy Seltzer, Strategy Lead;
> Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/Privacy/permissions-ws-2018/
> [2] https://www.w3.org/Privacy/permissions-ws-2018/minutes.html
> [3] https://github.com/w3cping/adding-permissions/blob/master/README.md
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