Welcome Nick Doty to DAS WG

Hi Devices and Sensors WG participants,

I'm pleased to let you know Nick Doty from UC Berkeley has joined the Devices and Sensors WG as an Invited Expert.

Nick has a strong history in the development of web standards that support online privacy, including Do Not Track and Tracking Protection. As a long-time Privacy Interest Group (PING) member, Nick is a familiar name to a number of the group's existing participants and has helped guide our work through horizontal privacy reviews.

As a testament to our collective focus on privacy, Nick already rolled his sleeves up and submitted a spec patch [1] that defines a mitigation to a sensor calibration fingerprinting issue that has already been implemented in Chromium [2] in an effort to help also other browser vendors implement this mitigation in an interoperable manner.

We look forward to working with Nick to continue further the group's mission of creating privacy-preserving client-side APIs that enable the development of web applications that interact with device capabilities.

Thanks,

-Anssi (DAS WG co-chair)


[1] https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/pull/86
[2] https://crbug.com/1018180

Received on Tuesday, 2 June 2020 08:27:33 UTC