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(PING) 2021 YEAR IN REVIEW AND
TUTORIALS
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10 January 2022 by Samuel Weiler
Posted in: Privacy and
Weekly
Security
The W3C
Newsletter
is for
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PING 2021 Year in Review
discussions
PING performed 24 privacy reviews in 2021 and
within W3C
Mailing Lists
provided guidance on several other APIs
and the Web
Podcasts and
community at
Video
PING privacy reviews resulted in privacy improvements
large.
in proposed specifications
Some examples include:
Announcements;
Tutorials and
issues on Web
Courses
Payment Request API: The specification identifies
standards and
the potential for sites to use the API for tracking
educational
Team
Submissions
instead of payments and recommends requiring
materials
users' consent as mitigation:
among other
Web Neural Network API: The specification
topics are
restricts functionality to first-party contexts to prevent
posted here;
others from using the functionality for tracking:
see the W3C
WebCodecs: We identified ways that sites could
home page tor
abuse the proposed functionality to learn details
official
about a user's CPU and GPU. The specification
announcements
mitigates this risk by limiting the revealed data to only
from W3C_
what would be otherwise available and by suggesting
ways that user agents could further dynamically limit
Search
exposure
Incremental Font Transfer: The API no longer
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sends unneeded information about the user's local
Search
network conditions.
Searchl
CSS Masking Module
evel 1: The specification
now warns that it should not be used for privacy-
nnen
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