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PRIVACY INTEREST GROUP (PING) 2021 YEAR
AND TUTORIALS E
IN REVIEW AND THANK YOUS
News
10 January 2022 by Samuel Weiler
Posted in: Privacy and Security
The W3C blog is for
Weekly Newsletter
PING 2021 Year in Review
discussions within
W3C Blog
PING performed 24 privacy reviews in 2021 and provided guidance on
W3C and the Web
Mailing Lists
several other APIs_
community at large
Announcements
Podcasts and Video
PING privacy reviews resulted in privacy improvements in proposed
issues on Web
Tutorials and
specifications
Some examples include:
standards and
educational materials
Courses
Payment Request API: The specification identifies the potential for
among other topics
Team Submissions
sites to use the API for tracking instead of payments and recommends
are
posted here; see
requiring users' consent as mitigation:
the W3C home page
Web Neural Network API: The specification restricts functionality to
for official
first-party contexts to prevent others from using the functionality for
announcements from
tracking:
W3C
WebCodecs: We identified ways that sites could abuse the proposed
functionality to learn details about a user's CPU and GPU: The
Search W3C
specification mitigates this risk by limiting the revealed data to only what
would be otherwise available and by suggesting ways that user agents
Blog
could further dynamically limit exposure
Search
Incremental Font Transfer: The API no longer sends unneeded
Searchi
Blogs,