W3C Developers<p>🆕 <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://w3c.social/@w3c" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w3c</span></a></span> launches the Private Advertising Technology (PAT) <a href="https://w3c.social/tags/WorkingGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingGroup</span></a><br>▶️ <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">w3.org/groups/wg/pat/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Motivated by the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://w3c.social/@tag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tag</span></a></span>'s Ethical Web Principles, this group aims to define web features and <a href="https://w3c.social/tags/APIs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APIs</span></a> that support advertising without compromising user <a href="https://w3c.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>. The group will produce specifications for user agents, building on work incubated in the <a href="https://w3c.social/tags/CommunityGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityGroup</span></a>.</p><p>🎬 Watch <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@Chronotope" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Chronotope</span></a></span> giving an excellent overview of the PAT work, back in 2022 at <a href="https://w3c.social/tags/w3cdevs2022" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>w3cdevs2022</span></a>, Vancouver 🇨🇦: <a href="https://www.w3.org/2022/09/meetup/speaker-aram.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">w3.org/2022/09/meetup/speaker-</span><span class="invisible">aram.html</span></a></p>