W3C

Privacy Activity

    • The evolution of Web technologies has increased collection, processing and publication of personal data. Privacy concerns are raised more and more often as applications built on the Web platform have access to more sensitive data — including location, health and social network information — and users' activity on the Web is tracked ubiquitously and invisibly.

    The W3C Privacy Activity coordinates standardization work to improve support for user privacy on the Web and develops general expertise in privacy-by-design for Web standards.

    Past Events

    Tracking Protection Working Group Face-to-Face Meeting

    31 October - 1 November 2011, TPAC; see working group home page.

    Tracking Protection Working Group Face-to-Face Meeting

    21-22 September 2011, MIT; see working group home page.

    Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy

    28-29 April 2011, Princeton; Workshop report

    Federated Social Web Summit Europe

    On Social Web interoperability, standards and privacy
    3-5 June 2011, Berlin: Workshop site

    Internet Privacy Workshop (IAB/W3C/ISOC)

    8-9 December 2010, MIT; Workshop homepage

    W3C Workshop on Privacy and Data Usage Control

    4-5 October 2010, MIT; Workshop homepage

    W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs

    12-13 July 2010, London; Workshop homepage

    W3C Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios

    17-18 November 2009, Luxembourg; Workshop homepage

    Staff

    • Rigo Wenning; Privacy Activity Lead
    • Thomas Roessler; Technology & Society Domain Lead
    • Nick Doty; Privacy Analyst