- From: Nick Doty via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:56:36 +0000
- To: public-patcg@w3.org
Sorry to repeat myself again, but it seems like the issue is repeated and the questions and concerns expressed by me and others have not been considered or addressed. Mandatory sale or sharing of browsing history would be deeply concerning to user advocates, and I expect to many people in a group working on private advertising technology. I object to adding a condition to a proposed WG charter that would mandate selling or sharing user data. This proposal seems confused about what it means to implement a standard. Do you mean instead: provide similar functionality in a different way from any proposed interoperable interface? While we still have not heard a direct example of what "input data" is meant to mean, if it means user browsing activity, that's not necessary to implement a standard, it's just what's used in the actual operation of software. Mandating that data from the operation of other software be shared does not change who can implement the standard, but it would create new privacy harms. To the extent that "input data" means browsing activity, this also seems confused about who has the right to sell data from a user's device or software. This would not be identical to royalty-free licensing of intellectual property in the design of a standard; it would instead be a novel mandate for organizations that participate in a standard-setting process to proactively sell or share data about users of their products. It also seems extremely unlikely that adding mandatory sale of user data to a charter would be generally acceptable to W3C membership. -- GitHub Notification of comment by npdoty Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/patcg/patwg-charter/issues/30#issuecomment-1170164837 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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