“Google was only member to vote no, while 24 others approved.” Not understating this: where data/privacy policy intersects with competition policy may be the most consequential work of our digital future. It’s where Google holds its power and is failing the public good.https://twitter.com/MattRogerson/status/1177174759597105152 …
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Replying to @jason_kint
Hi Jason, I run standards work in Chrome. The article has been updated with a bit of the appropriate context, but there's both more and less going on than it may appear. First, the "formal objection" mechanism is not well understood. It's a parliamentary procedure of sorts.
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Replying to @slightlylate @jason_kint
For several years, in several fora, we have attempted to convince the PING (the Interest Group at issue) that the best way to help improve privacy is to hold proposals up against a formal model. That is, how much entropy is in the platform or a proposed feature?
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Replying to @slightlylate @jason_kint
If privacy matters, grounded analysis matters. Without it, things that seem harmless could be devastating (and vise versa). Without a model, there's precious little way to help feature developers improve at scale.
@w3ctag asked PING for this *repeatedly* in the years I served.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Which brings us the "formal objection" mechanism. In the W3C process, FO's serve many purposes, but are often a way to request changes to a proposed charter when a member thinks change is essential for the success of a group. Here, we (Google) requested a model be in in scope.
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Charters last years, so if we want to get this done soon, it has to be in the charter *now*. A formal model was not in the draft charter, so we used to tool at hand (FO) to require that the chairs and W3C staff respond on the record to this request.
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At last week's meeting, Google both offered a model document to start from (which was accepted by PING), and continued to press PING to focus on effective, actionable advice to feature designers.
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So, take from this what you like, but that's the backstory.
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