Re: DNT Session at TPAC Plenary Day

On Monday, September 3, 2018 6:47:56 PM CEST Lukasz Olejnik (W3C) 
wrote:
> Sounds good. However, I believe the link should be more to
> ePrivacy reg, rather than GDPR. However, ePrivacy is rather fluid
> now. Is there someone with the working knowledge of GDPR +
> ePrivacy process as it unfolds?

The Commission version is seen as too restrictive and too permissive 
and in general not of very high quality. Looks like the Commission 
wasn't keen to make the effort of creating something of high quality 
that will be massively changed by all parties involved. 

The LIBE and Plenary Parliament version contains all rules necessary 
to make DNT a consent mechanism. But the wording is neutral enough 
technology - wise, that it will also cover other systems (like the 
things developed by the SPECIAL project (specialprivacy.eu) or like 
extensions and future semantically rich versions of a DNT like 
protocol. The LIBE version had over 700 amendments to the Commission 
version and has improved the quality a lot. 

The Council (as was done for GDPR) is the blocking force. They 
haven't submitted anything so far and lend their ear more to the 
marketing industry. This is the biggest uncertainty for the moment. 

The parties will soon enter into the so called Trilog (COM/PAR/
COUN). In this Trilog, there can be significant changes. 

One of the issues is that the marketing industry claims very loudly 
that privacy handling technology like DNT is unimplementable, that 
nothing is on the market and that the world will fall apart if the 
LIBE version would make it. (All arguments known from the DNT 
battle)

So if the technology industry wants to save the option of having 
privacy handling technologies with clear legal backing, they need to 
counter the marketing industry argumentation that DNT and the like 
is unimplementable (for economic or scientific reasons). This will 
considerably influence the debate. Every proof of concept 
implemented will change the landscape of the debate.
The SPECIAL project asserts it works but also researches new 
directions.

 --Rigo