Re: privacywg call for consensus: Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting group note

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
> 
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> Nick Doty | https://npdoty.name
> Senior Technologist
> Center for Democracy & Technology | https://cdt.org

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Received on Wednesday, 29 January 2025 00:01:25 UTC