Privacy Interest Group (PING) Revised Charter Approved (Call for Participation) (fwd)

Dear members of the Privacy Interest Group (PING),

For your information:

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
> Subject: Privacy Interest Group (PING) Revised Charter Approved (Call for Participation)
> Date: 4 October 2019 at 18:21:54 CEST
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> Cc: Chairs <chairs@w3.org>
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> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
> Chairs,
> 
> The Director is pleased to announce the recharter of the Privacy Interest Group (PING):
>  https://www.w3.org/2019/09/privacy-ig-charter.html
> 
> This group is chartered until 31 December 2022.
> 
> PING's mission is to improve privacy on the Web by advising groups developing standards on how to avoid and mitigate privacy issues with their technologies. PING also suggests changes to existing standards and technologies to improve the privacy of existing systems. Finally, PING makes recommendations to the W3C Advisory Committee and the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) about whether a proposed standard would be beneficial or harmful for privacy on the web.
> 
> PING has exciting efforts in progress, and this would be an excellent time for you and/or others from your organization to become involved. In particular:
> 
> -- PING is doing earlier reviews of specifications, offering
>  privacy input prior to implementation, not just when
>  already-implemented features come through working groups for
>  standardization.
> 
> -- PING recently updated W3C's Security and Privacy Self-Review
>  Questionnaire and published a new document on mitigating
>  fingerprinting.
> 
> -- PING is working to decrease fingerprinting surface, both active and
>  passive. First targets include font enumeration and the User Agent
>  string.
> 
> 
> PING had over 40 attendees at its meetings at TPAC2019 and is seeing increased participation in recent months. Even so, the above efforts, particularly the push for better and earlier privacy review of specs, require many hands, and we encourage you to recruit privacy-aware people from your organization and ask them to join PING.
> 
> Use the following form to join PING:
>  https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/52497/join
> 
> PING conducts its work using a mailing list, Slack, GitHub, and phone calls - currently on occasional Thursdays at noon US Eastern time.
> 
> The IG chairs are Christine Runnegar (Internet Society), Peter Snyder (Brave), and Tara Whalen (Google). The Team Contact is Samuel Weiler (0.3 FTE).
> 
> More information about PING can be found on the W3C Privacy page:
>  https://www.w3.org/Privacy/
> 
> […]
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
> Wendy Seltzer, Strategy Lead,
> Samuel Weiler, PING Team Contact; 
> Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications

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