W3C Tracking Protection Working Group Charter - DRAFT; do comment


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Full document here  http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/charter-draft

Scope

The Working Group will produce Recommendation-track specifications for a simple machine-readable preference expression mechanism ("Do Not Track") and technologies for selectively allowing or blocking tracking elements.

Proposed candidate technologies for this preference that the Working Group will consider include, but are not limited to, the use of an HTTP header to signal the preference and a site's response, and the use of a ECMAScript API or DOM property for the same purpose.

Additionally, the Working Group will define the scope of that user preference and practices for compliance with it in a way that will inform and be informed by the technical specification. The group will actively engage governmental, industry, academic and advocacy organizations to seek global consensus definitions and codes of conduct.

The Working Group may investigate monitoring of implementation and conformance to Recommendations by both user agents and Web sites.