- From: Nick Doty via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:29:59 +0000
- To: public-patcg@w3.org
I don't think browsing data (or favorite color data) would be necessary to implement the proposed or hypothesized standards here. It could be that such data would be used in the operation of implementations of these standards related to more private advertising. A potential analogy: the contents of my email messages are used in the operation of my email client, which implements the SMTP standard. To repeat, I don't believe that browser vendors have the right to sell user data collected by browser software running on a user's device. I don't think users should be required to share their data with every company that wishes to buy it just because they're running software developed by a company that also participated in this proposed working group. It would indeed be controversial and unprecedented to mandate sale of user data as a condition to participate in a W3C Working Group. To repeat, again, it also seems extremely unlikely that adding mandatory sale of user data to a charter would be generally acceptable to W3C membership. I agree that we don't have to have browser vendors involved in every W3C standard or working group. If there is interest in other groups for discussion or standardization of technology related to advertising that doesn't involve web browsers, I would also be interested in those discussions. My understanding of this group's interests, and the interest from participants in setting up a Working Group, is that there was definite interest in client-side functionality and APIs that might be implemented by browsers. But W3C has flexibility, especially in Community Groups, in setting up additional groups to discuss different kinds of proposals. -- GitHub Notification of comment by npdoty Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/patcg/patwg-charter/issues/30#issuecomment-1177971696 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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