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PRIVACY INTEREST GROUP (PING) 2021 YEAR IN REVIEW
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10 January 2022 by Samuel Weiler
Posted in: Privacy and Security
The W3C blog is for
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PING 2021 Year in Review
discussions within W3C and
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PING performed 24 privacy reviews in 2021 and provided guidance on several other APIs_
the Web community at
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PING privacy reviews resulted in privacy improvements in proposed specifications. Some
issues on Web standards
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examples include:
and educational materials
Tutorials and Courses
among other topics are
Payment Request API: The specification identifies the potential for sites to use the API for
posted here; see the W3C
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tracking instead of payments and recommends requiring users' consent as mitigation.
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Web Neural Network API: The specification restricts functionality to first-party contexts to
announcements from W3C
prevent others from using the functionality for tracking:
WebCodecs
We identified ways that sites could abuse the proposed functionality to learn
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details about a user's CPU and GPU: The specification mitigates this risk by limiting the
revealed data to only what would be otherwise available and by suggesting ways that user
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agents could further dynamically limit exposure
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Incremental Font Transfer: The APE
no longer sends unneeded information about the user's
local network conditions_
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CSS Masking Module
evel 1: The specification now warns that it should not be used for
privacy-protecting purposes because the masking is purely cosmetic and does not irreversibly
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redact data_
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Ambient Light Sensor API: The working group made its data minimization guidance
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