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Establishing the Meaning of Do Not Track
Today, the co-chairs of the Tracking Protection Working Group released the group's decision on base text for continued work. In progressing toward a draft that could move the multi-stakeholder work on a consensus standard for Do Not Track forward, the group reviewed and rejected a package change proposal offered by the Digital Advertising Alliance and its supporters. The decision re-affirms the Working Group's mission to 'improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms ...
Full Steam On Do Not Track
A blizzard of activity: that’s what we had at the Boston face-to-face of the Tracking Protection Working Group. Over the past two days, the group has successfully managed to identify a path toward fulfilling our W3C charter: we now have a roadmap to Last Call for a Do Not Track standard.
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DNT is Good For the Whole Web
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The Tracking Protection Working Group has brought together players from the advertising and publishing ecosystems, browser makers, consumer groups, relevant governmental agencies and other stakeholders to forge a consensus solution for Do Not Track (DNT).
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A Time for Compromise on Do Not Track
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We last blogged about the Tracking Protection Working Group in June, immediately after the group's face-to-face meeting in Bellevue. That meeting was productive and laid the ground work for further progress. The "Tracking Preference Expression" (DNT) header is now implemented...
Tracking Controversy
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The Web has transformed how we do business, how we interact, and how we innovate. As a result, the future of Web technology can be a high-stakes conversation. When stakeholders with strong competing interests engage in that conversation, controversy is...
The state of Do Not Track
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It's time to take stock of the last two months in Do Not Track. Since the White House announcement in February, a lot has happened, both in the policy conversations that surround the work in the W3C Tracking Protection...
Progress and support for Do Not Track in Brussels
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With introductions from European Commissioner Neelie Kroes and US FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, the Tracking Protection Working Group met last week in Brussels, making significant progress on standardizing Do Not Track.
Web walls, digital signage and personalized content
There is increasing interest in multiscreen applications, and this is featured in the latest webinos video on multiplayer games. In the office, we are used to having to plug our personal computers into the room's projector, but perhaps these days...
Some notes on the recent XML Encryption attack
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At last week's CCS'11 conference, Tibor Jager and Juraj Somorovsky from Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany published a paper "How to Break XML Encryption." This paper is good cryptography research: By generalizing the ideas behind previous padding-based attacks, they have found...