Re: SWAN.community

Thanks James,

I look forward to reviewing these materials, and invite people to
indicate if they'd like to discuss on a call.

Best,
--Wendy


On 3/31/21 5:39 AM, James Rosewell wrote:
> Dear W3C IWA BG,
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> Today the disciplines of economics, law and engineering came together to announce a solution to improve web advertising.
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> Titled SWAN.community, the approach revolves around people by providing meaningful privacy by design global controls and identifiers.
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> SWAN seeks to move identifiers and preferences into the utility layer of the web providing meaningful choice around privacy and competition.
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> SWAN addresses a problem neatly summarised by Matthew Parris (British journalist and national treasure) in his 2021 wish list  - "A device that automatically accepts/rejects all internet cookies without asking every time." [1]
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> A 30-minute presentation covering the governance, privacy, engineering, and timelines for consultation and deployment is available should this group wish to receive a briefing at a future meeting.
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> In the meantime more information is available at https://swan.community and on GitHub at https://github.com/SWAN-community/swan.
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> Regards,
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> James
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> [1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-31-inventions-that-britain-really-needs
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