A little more than a month from now, on May 25., The European 🇪🇺General Data Protection Regulation #GDPR goes into effect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera…
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While this is a European regulation, it is meant to impact any service with users among European citizen & residents, even if the provider is not European, and is thus expected to have broad impact on the Web.
2 recent intersections of this regulation with the @w3c agenda
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Last week, the Tracking Protection Working Group charter was extended for 6 more months with the explicit goal of exploring the intersection of the #DoNoTrack #HTTP header developed by that group and the #GDPR
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Apr 16, 2018 · 10:14 AM UTC
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Article 21 of the regulation identifies the right of data subjects to “object by automated means using technical specifications” gdpr-info.eu/art-21-gdpr/ which #DoNoTrack could help with - the Tracking Protection Working Group will want to validate that it indeed does
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The second intersection will be investigated starting tomorrow at the @w3c Workshop on data #privacy controls and vocabularies, via the @specialprivacy project
17-18: in #Vienna, @specialprivacy holds its #W3Cworkshop on data #privacy controls and vocabularies w3.org/2018/vocabws/
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#Privacy is obviously a key topic for the present and the future of the Web, there are still lot of things to figure out when it comes to keep the Web a trustable platform. Some of these questions are explored in our Strategy Funnel github.com/w3c/strategy/labe…
The @w3c Strategy Funnel is a github project board where we keep track of potential new work to be considered for standardization, at different stage of advancement. github.com/w3c/strategy/proj…
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