The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tracking Protection Working Group, the...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tracking Protection Working Group, the stakeholder group dedicated to finding a Do Not Track solution, announced a change in leadership Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bn3w7f). Ohio State University Law Professor Peter Swire was appointed to fill the…
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working group’s co-chair position, which was recently vacated by Stanford Center for Internet and Society fellow Aleecia McDonald, also a Mozilla privacy researcher. During a teleconference, Swire described his academic, technical and policy backgrounds. He detailed his time working on privacy issues in the Clinton and Obama administrations -- experience which he said is “relevant to the tricky policy issues here” -- and his experience in working with stakeholders on privacy issues. Because he had not participated in the discussions before becoming co-chair, Swire said he was “coming fresh to the actual [Do Not Track] discussions” and is optimistic the group will find a solution and build consensus around it, despite pessimism and frustration that some stakeholders have expressed with the process. In statements, members of the working group praised Swire. Jules Polonetsky and Christopher Wolf, co-chairs of the Future of Privacy Forum, said Swire’s “experience and his evenhanded approach to forging privacy solutions makes him uniquely qualified to take on this challenge.” Alex Fowler, global privacy and public policy leader at Mozilla, said he has been impressed over the years by Swire’s “ability to bring stakeholders together, break through political quagmires, and move forward in a balanced manner.” Digital Advertising Alliance Counsel Stu Ingis predicted “the W3C process will focus more specifically on technical standards setting, rather than public policy creation” with Swire as co-chair. During the teleconference Swire and W3C staff member Thomas Roessler declined to comment on specifics of the group’s progress.