- From: Tara Whalen <tjwhalen@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:52:57 +0100
- To: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
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PING – informal chairs’ summary – 1 December 2016 Thanks very much to Nick Doty for acting as scribe. Our next call will be 19 January 2017 at the usual time. * Requests for reviews: A reminder that there are three requests for privacy reviews: - Screen Orientation API [1], due 12 February 2017 - IndexedDB API specification [2], due 8 January 2017 - Web Performance [3], deadline TBD Group discussion focused on how we can more effectively manage the privacy review process to handle the volume of requests. Suggestions included deploying self-review guidelines, with a followup to delve more deeply into specific technical privacy issue for that specification, in discussion with author(s). There was also a recommendation to make better use of Github as a means for managing outstanding issues and related discussion, which could make the review process more visible and structured. * User Controls in Web Browsers [4] Mark Nottingham shared this document as an evolution from previous conversations with PING, which is an expansion of preliminary work on private browsing modes. This document generalizes the discussion into types of controls users may wish to deploy for managing their web data (i.e., site, local, and network data controls). Feedback is encouraged; this could be adopted as a PING note for ongoing work. * Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications [5] Work continues on finalizing this document, with particular focus on how to make it more actionable for people writing browser specifications. Nick Doty met with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for their input about fingerprinting issues. EFF suggestions were that it would help to prioritize how issues were fixed (e.g., implementation versus specification phase); that making fingerprinting detectable is important; that consideration of UI/UX issues is key and could require specific attention; and that we may need some coordination of fingerprinting efforts across network bodies and layers (e.g., IETF/IAB). Link to the minutes: https://www.w3.org/2016/12/01-privacy-minutes.html Christine and Tara [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2016OctDec/0030.html [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2016OctDec/0031.html [3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2016OctDec/0035.html [4] https://gist.github.com/mnot/96440a5ca74fcf328d23 [5] https://github.com/w3c/fingerprinting-guidance
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