W3C Privacy Activity

The evolution of Web technologies has increased collection, processing and publication of personal data. Privacy concerns are raised 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 ubiquitously tracked. 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.

Privacy Interest Group

The group monitors ongoing privacy issues that affect the Web, investigates potential areas for new privacy work, and provides guidelines and advice for addressing privacy in standards development.

Christine Runnegar (Internet Society) and Tara Whalen (Google) are co-chairing the group. Keiji Takeda (W3C) is the Team Contact.

Want to learn more? Please join the group and the mailing list. (Non-Members may join the group as public Invited Experts.)

Privacy Interest Group Meetings

Next call: 16th February 2017
9am PT, 12pm ET

Times in other region.

WebEx meeting
+1 617-324-0000
meeting number: 645 452 022
WebEx FAQ

Please also join us in IRC in the #privacy room.

Server: irc.w3.org
Username: <your name>
Port: 6667 or 6665
Channel: #privacy

Past meetings

2017-01-19 | summary
2016-12-01 | summary
2016-11-03 | summary
2016-09-20 (f2f at TPAC) | summary
2016-08-25 | summary
2016-07-28 | summary
2016-06-23 | summary
2016-05-26 | summary
2016-04-28 | summary
2016-03-24 | summary
2016-02-25 | summary
2016-01-21 | summary
2015-12-03 | summary
2015-10-30 (f2f at TPAC) | summary
2015-10-22 | summary
2015-08-13 | summary
2015-07-30 | summary
2015-05-14 | summary
2015-04-09 | summary
2015-03-27 | summary
2015-02-26 | summary
2015-01-15 | summary
2014-12-04 | summary
2014-11-13 | summary
2014-10-02 | summary
2014-08-28 | summary
2014-07-24 (f2f at IETF)
2014-06-26 | summary
2014-05-29| summary
2014-04-24 | summary
2014-03-07 (informal f2f)
2014-03-04 (f2f at IETF)
2014-01-30 | summary
2013-12-05 | summary
2013-10-10 | summary
2013-08-22 | summary
2013-07-11 | summary
2013-05-23 | summary
2013-04-25 | summary
2013-03-28 | summary
2013-02-28 | summary
2013-01-24 | summary
2012-12-06 | summary
2012-10-18 | summary
2012-09-20 | summary
2012-08-23 | summary
2012-07-19 | summary
2012-06-14 | summary
2012-05-17 | summary
2012-04-19 | summary

Staff

Please contact the W3C staff with questions or suggestions for these groups or W3C privacy work.

Keiji Takeda; Team Contact
Wendy Seltzer; Privacy Activity Lead and Technology & Society Domain Lead

Tracking Protection Working Group

Past events

W3C Workshop on Privacy and User-Centric Controls

20-21 November 2014, Berlin; Workshop homepage

Next steps on trust and permissions for Web applications

3-4 September 2014, Paris; Workshop homepage

Workshop on Strengthening the Internet

28 February - 1 March 2014, London; Workshop homepage

Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond

26-27 November 2012, Berkeley; Workshop report

Tracking Protection Working Group Face-to-Face Meetings

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