It's happening right now in Geneva 🇨🇭! The @w3c team (@simone, @dontcallmeDOM, @plehegar, @p20n, Tara Whalen and Sylvia Cadena) and W3C members join global leaders in shaping the future of digital identity to promote trusted wallets, credentials and infrastructure for the benefit of all humans.
Taking over the Privacy #InterestGroup's role in reviewing and advising other groups on enhancing user privacy in Web standards, the group will also develop the Global Privacy Control (GPC) spec., which defines a signal sent via HTTP and the DOM to request that #websites do not sell or share personal information with third parties.
▶️ https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/
It's happening right now in Geneva 🇨🇭! The @w3c team (@simone, @dontcallmeDOM, @plehegar, @p20n, Tara Whalen and Sylvia Cadena) and W3C members join global leaders in shaping the future of digital identity to promote trusted wallets, credentials and infrastructure for the benefit of all humans.
Find out more: https://globaldigitalcollaboration.org/ #gdc25
Taking over the Privacy #InterestGroup's role in reviewing and advising other groups on enhancing user privacy in Web standards, the group will also develop the Global Privacy Control (GPC) spec., which defines a signal sent via HTTP and the DOM to request that #websites do not sell or share personal information with third parties.
▶️ https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/
GPC has been incubated in the Privacy #CommunityGroup, and anchors its signal in several existing legal frameworks: https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/#legal-effects