Last week the @tag published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. This document elaborates on the privacy principle from the Ethical Web Principles: "Security and privacy are essential."

Privacy is an essential part of the web. The document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. #privacy

Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/

The @w3c team have appointed me to @tag! Thank you to @TetraLogical for the initial nomination, everyone who emailed in & also the W3C team! I’m excited to serve & contribute over the next two years! 🥳

I’m an invited expert so not currently backed by any member orgs, if you’d like to support my contributions to TAG & standards in general, please consider sponsoring me on open collective 💙

https://opencollective.com/lolas-lab

The newly launched Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). The guidelines are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help organizations incorporate digital products and services into broader sustainability reporting initiatives. These guidelines will enable people to better understand the Internet’s impact on sustainability reporting.
Learn more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/sustainable-web-interest-group-is-formed/

@w3cdevs @w3c Thank you @sphcow for doing this!

Enabling user agents to mediate access to digital credentials such as a driver's license, etc. @w3c https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2024Apr/0003.html

W3C @tag is requesting Wide Review for the Privacy Principles: https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/

@mnot I did not add RFC2119 as a normative reference.

Added: The proposed [chartered] work MUST support W3C's vision and W3C design principles (see W3C mission), as well our various principles.
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/commit/ec66cd3de224d5acd0ec8178c8f3df192d4fa68c

UN Report on Human rights and technical standard-setting processes for
new and emerging digital technologies:
https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/53/42 (link updated)

@w3c report on driving developer awareness and adoption of Web security standards & practices

https://www.w3.org/2023/03/secure-the-web-forward/report.html

Thanks to @tidoust and others

@inuvanda You can now see the rest at https://www.w3.org/History/FiscalSlots/

here are the others slots https://www.w3.org/History/FiscalSlots/

@inuvanda things were slow to setup in the early days. W3C was launched with only the US side for the first 3 months or so. The intent since early 1994 was always to have a European host as well. Thus the empty line for Europe. The Web was invented in Europe after all...

Happy holidays from the World Wide Web Consortium!
万维网联盟祝大家节日快乐!
Joyeuses fêtes de la part du World Wide Web Consortium !
W3CからHappy holidaysを皆様へ！

To all the people who join forces at the Web Consortium to make the Web work, for everyone, we wish you happy holidays and all the best for 2024!

https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/happy-holidays-from-the-world-wide-web-consortium/

US FTC on Interoperability, Privacy, & Security :
https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2023/12/interoperability-privacy-security

It's really sad that I had to kill my Web browser to get rid of a fake security popup alert. Seems a failure at making the Web safe for everyone. :(

W3C is looking for a Web Security lead
https://www.w3.org/news/2023/hiring-web-security-lead/

@svgeesus thank you. Happy to have you on board!

My geek week project for the week of October 23-27: updating the W3C guidebook, in particular https://github.com/w3c/Guide/issues/184