- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:01:15 +1100
- To: Nick Doty <ndoty@cdt.org>
- Cc: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
Hi Nick, Could you please walk us through the details and implications of auto-publishing? Cheers, > On 29 Jan 2025, at 1:16 am, Nick Doty <ndoty@cdt.org> wrote: > > Hi Privacy WG, > > This is a call for consensus, to confirm on the list the proposed resolution that we had at the recent Privacy Working Group meeting, that the Privacy Working Group should publish a Group Note of the Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting document, that was previously published as a PING Group Note. Per our previous discussion, that would also configure auto-publishing of this document when updates are made, with ongoing review by the group and at least one formal review by the group at TPAC each year. > > Minutes from the 16 January call: https://github.com/w3c/privacywg/blob/main/minutes/privacywg-20250116.md#mitigating-browser-fingerprintinggithub---w3cfingerprinting-guidance-what-is-browser-fingerprinting-and-how-should-specification-authors-address-it > Editor's draft: https://w3c.github.io/fingerprinting-guidance/ > > If you have an objection to this decision, please let us know on list by next Tuesday, February 4th. > > The W3C Team can help us with the actual details of publishing/autopublishing, which I also think will need to include reviewing and merging the open PR from Jeffrey Yasskin. > > We also heard interest from some volunteers in working on updates to that guidance document. Many thanks to Tom Ritter (Mozilla) for getting us started! Tom has already opened a PR and a couple of issues, including one open question that other implementers or researchers may want to answer: do we think Accept-CH response headers are providing in practice meaningful detectability of accessing fingerprinting surface? > > https://github.com/w3c/fingerprinting-guidance/issues/68 > https://github.com/w3c/fingerprinting-guidance/pull/69 > https://github.com/w3c/fingerprinting-guidance/issues/71 > > Thanks all for your interest on this long-term but still very relevant privacy topic. > > —Nick, for the co-chairs > > -- > Nick Doty | https://npdoty.name > Senior Technologist > Center for Democracy & Technology | https://cdt.org -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
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