{"id":111,"date":"2011-09-29T16:47:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T00:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/privacy\/?p=111"},"modified":"2016-01-19T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:21:38","slug":"agreeing-on-do-not-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2011\/09\/29\/agreeing-on-do-not-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreeing on Do Not Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week saw the first meeting of the W3C’s Tracking Protection Working Group<\/a>, a cross-section of advertisers, browser vendors, publishers and public interest groups come together to agree on a standard for Do Not Track (DNT).<\/p>\n

We believe the group’s mission is vitally important. Without a well-defined DNT mechanism, it has been common<\/a> for Web users to have their reading habits recorded by companies they have never heard of, and have no relationship with. Sophisticated tracking<\/a> techniques<\/a> have been appearing<\/a> faster<\/a> than users’ ability to defend against them. The mission of this working group is to give readers a simple and meaningful way to regain control.<\/p>\n

Last week’s Working Group turnout was comprehensive, with about 40 folks present from a variety of organizations — comfortably more than the ten required by the charter<\/a>. The chairs, Aleecia McDonald (Mozilla)<\/a> and Matthias Schunter (IBM)<\/a>, emphasized the need to work quickly in producing this consensus standard and outlined an aggressive schedule, with the next meeting at the end of October, and a Last Call Working Draft expected before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

In two days, we made healthy progress, agreeing broadly on the DNT header in its current form, and brainstorming ways to extend it into a more refined standard. There was no shortage of ideas around the table and we put together quite a to-do list<\/a> of topics to work on in the coming weeks and months. Although there was healthy discussion on most of the issues raised, there was a surprising amount of agreement on many of the substantive questions, which bodes well for the production of a robust and widely-used standard.<\/p>\n

The entire workings of the group are public. If you’re interested, then you can sign up for the group’s mailing list<\/a>, which is also publicly archived. The minutes from both<\/a> days<\/a> of last week’s meeting are available, and further updates, including minutes of the weekly conference calls will continue to be archived on the group’s page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This post was co-written by Peter Eckersley of the EFF<\/a>, and Tom Lowenthal from Mozilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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