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<ul class="nav"><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity.html" title="Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity Statement">Extensible Markup Language (XML)</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Fonts/Activity.html" title="Fonts Activity Statement">Fonts</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Activity.html" title="Graphics Activity Statement">Graphics</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity.html" title="HTML Activity Statement">HTML</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/Activity.html" title="Incubator Activity Statement">Incubator</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/International/Activity.html" title="Internationalization Activity Statement">Internationalization</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Math/Activity.html" title="Math Activity Statement">Math</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Activity.html" title="Mobile Web Initiative Activity Statement">Mobile Web Initiative</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity.html" title="Multimodal Interaction Activity Statement">Multimodal Interaction</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/pp/Activity.html" title="Patent Policy Activity Statement">Patent Policy</a></li><li class="navcurrent">Privacy</li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity.html" title="Rich Web Client Activity Statement">Rich Web Client</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity.html" title="Security Activity Statement">Security</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Activity.html" title="Semantic Web Activity Statement">Semantic Web</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/Activity.html" title="Style Activity Statement">Style</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/Activity.html" title="Synchronized Multimedia Activity Statement">Synchronized Multimedia</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/Activity.html" title="Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity Statement">Ubiquitous Web Applications</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Activity.html" title="Video in the Web Activity Statement">Video in the Web</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Voice/Activity.html" title="Voice Browser Activity Statement">Voice Browser</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/IPO/Activity.html" title="WAI International Program Office Activity Statement">WAI International Program Office</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/Technical/Activity.html" title="WAI Technical Activity Statement">WAI Technical</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity.html" title="Web Services Activity Statement">Web Services</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/testing/Activity.html" title="Web Testing Activity Statement">Web Testing</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/Activity.html" title="Web and TV Activity Statement">Web and TV</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/Forms/Activity.html" title="XForms Activity Statement">XForms</a></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/egov/Activity.html" title="eGovernment Activity Statement">eGovernment</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
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<h1>Privacy Activity Statement</h1>
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<p>Privacy remains one of the main activities of the Consortium in the area of
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social responsibility. Privacy has many different aspects in W3C:</p>
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<li>It is a horizontal area as most of W3C's technologies also deal with
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personal data and thus need to take Privacy into account</li>
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<li>It is a technology area by itself. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/">Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)</a>
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was a foundational step and remains relevant as a basis for many of the
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current cutting edge privacy enhancing technologies. Currently, the
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Tracking Protection Working Group is <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/charter.html" title="Tracking Protection Working Group Charter">chartered</a> to
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improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing
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user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web
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tracking elements. The group seeks to standardize the technology and
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meaning of Do Not Track, and of Tracking Selection Lists.</li>
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<li>Privacy is an area of intense research: For the past 7 years, W3C has
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participated in EU FP7 research on Privacy. The last project, PrimeLife,
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had a budget of €11Mio. In this project, the W3C Team tried to advance in
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the area of policy languages and social networking. W3C Team continues to
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be an actor in the area of privacy research, actively looking for further
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research funding opportunities.</li>
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<li>Out of the combination of standardization and research, W3C has developed
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a profile for technology transfer. Members actively engage with privacy
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advocates and researchers in the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/">public-privacy</a>
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mailing-list that will soon be steered by a Privacy Interest Group. </li>
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</ol>
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<p>At least since Alan Westin wrote his famous books <q>Privacy and Freedom
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(1967)</q> and <q>Databanks in a Free Society (1972)</q>, Privacy has been a
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sustained challenge for computer science. Computing provides powerful tools
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that can be used for the good and for the bad of humankind. W3C has started
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work on Privacy with <a href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/">P3P</a> and has continued
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to explore the Privacy challenges since then. There is no obvious end to the
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Privacy challenge on the Web. Nearly 10 Years after the completion of the work
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on P3P, much of the research in the area of privacy, accountability and data
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handling is still heavily influenced by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/">P3P 1.0 Recommendation</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P11/">P3P 1.1 Working Group Note</a>. </p>
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<p>Thevery successful <a href="http://www.primelife.eu/">PrimeLife project</a>
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allowed to explore new technologies like anonymous credentials, new policy
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languages and how to integrate the value of privacy into Specifications. With
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the Project's support, we were able to organize many interesting workshops:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/">W3C Workshop on Access
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Control Application Scenarios</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/">W3C Workshop on Privacy
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for Advanced Web APIs</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/policy-ws/">W3C Workshop on Privacy and
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data usage control</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.iab.org/about/workshops/privacy/">Internet Privacy
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Workshop How can Technology help to improve Privacy on the
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Internet?</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/">Workshop on Web Tracking
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and User Privacy</a></li>
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</ol>
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<p>It can be concluded that people need a venue for general privacy discussions
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related to the Web. All attempts to limit the discussion to a specific policy
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language or a very narrowly focused interest were rather detrimental to the
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overall quality of discussion and the success of the venue. This will be
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addressed in the near future by a Privacy Interest Group and is supported by
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the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/">public-privacy</a>
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mailing-list.</p>
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<h2>Highlights Since the Previous Advisory Committee Meeting</h2>
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<p>Political movements in the United States towards greater attention for
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privacy have resulted in significant public discussion of Web tracking
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techniques and possible countermeasures. Fortunately and as a result of its
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strategic planning exercise for 2011, W3C had already decided to strengthen its
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focus on privacy. Feedback was given to inquiries of the US government. High
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attention was given to the <q>Do Not Track</q> header initially promoted by CDT
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and implemented for the first time by Mozilla. Meanwhile, Microsoft made a <a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/2011/SUBM-web-tracking-protection-20110224/">Web
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Tracking Protection Member Submission</a>. W3C Staff prepared a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/">Workshop on Web Tracking and User
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Privacy at Princeton University on 28-29 April 2011</a> to assess the degree of
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support for W3C to take up Recommendation-track work in this area. W3C Team
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also participated in events in Brussels discussing <q>Do Not Track</q> to
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strive for a global solution. All this resulted in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/charter.html">chartering</a>
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of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/">Tracking
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Protection Working Group</a>. The chartering of an additional Privacy Interest
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Group is iminent.</p>
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<h3>Past Achievements of the Activity</h3>
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<p>The P3P Specification Working Group delivered multiple important milestones
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for the Web. The most important documents are listed here:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-P3P11-20061113/">The Platform for
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Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P1.1) Specification</a> (2006)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-P3P-20020416/">The Platform for
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Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Recommendation</a> (2002)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P-preferences/">A P3P Preference Exchange
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Language 1.0 (APPEL1.0)</a> (2002)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-P3P10-principles-19980721">P3P
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Guiding Principles</a> (1998)</li>
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<li>P3P using Semantic Web (<a href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/2004/040920_p3p-sw.html">unofficial
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2004-version</a>) (<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-p3p-rdfschema-20020125/">2002-version</a>)</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Upcoming Activity Highlights</h2>
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<p>Work on <q>Do Not Track</q> has already started with a very ambitious and
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aggressive schedule. The Privacy Activity has also a horizontal dimension that
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will be taken up by an Interest Group to be created the next reporting period.
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</p>
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<h2>Summary of Activity Structure</h2>
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(<a title="Participants in the Tracking Protection Working Group [Member-only link]" href="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=49311">participants</a>)</span></th><td>Aleecia M. McDonald, Matthias Schunter</td><td>Nick Doty</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/charter">Chartered</a> until 31 July 2012</td></tr></tbody></table>
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This Activity Statement was prepared for
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/11/TPAC/">TPAC 2011</a> per <a href="/Consortium/Process/activities#Activities">section 5</a>
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of the <a href="/Consortium/Process/">W3C Process Document</a>.
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<a href="/2005/04/activity/processActivityStatements.xsl">Generated</a>
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from <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/04/mem-news/public-groups.rdf">group data</a>.
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<address>
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<a href="mailto:rigo@w3.org">Rigo Wenning</a>, Privacy Activity Lead
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