Part 1: Overview — Part 2 (next article): W3C and User Privacy Standards
Founded in 1994, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the global standards organization for the web. It is considered one of the most Web's geekiest corners.
The consortium is governed by its membership. It is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time employees working on the standards developments. Meaning it is basically an online community for people that manage the internet to come together and discuss potential technical features, the proposal of standards, and eventually their deployment.
from Wikipedia:
The Consortium is jointly administered by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL, located in Stata Center) in the United States, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics [fr] (ERCIM) (in Sophia Antipolis, France), Keio University (in Japan) and Beihang University (in China). The W3C also has World Offices in eighteen regions around the world.
W3C ensures that browsers and websites are secure, safe, and work as expected, regardless of the {website-browser} combination.
One of the very sensitive topics that the W3C is dealing with is User Privacy Web Standards.
In the next article, I will be breaking down the main concerns that the above-mentioned topic has and how members of the W3C are handling all sorts of discussions and decisions about User Privacy.
