The W3C publishing ethical web principles is like OPEC publishing ethical climate principles.

Who are the members of the W3C?

Google,
Facebook (Meta),
Amazon,
Adobe,
SoftBank,
Yahoo!,
…

The W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.

Ethical principles? W3C? Don’t make me laugh!

If they had any ethics they’d have expelled their most prominent members starting with Google and Facebook.

w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principl…

#w3c #BigWeb #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #ethics #PR

But, hey, I might be wrong and the #W3C now fully believes in its new ethical web principles. In which case, they will no doubt take action and expel members that only exist because their business model relies on violating them.

#Google is fundamentally incompatible with the W3C’s ethical web principles and should be expelled from the W3C as it relies on violating section 2.5 (The web must…respect people’s privacy).

Also, §2.2 (The web should not cause harm to society).

Ditto #Facebook, etc.

@sascha @heluecht @one

Ja, siehe:

#ActivityPub
#W3C #Recommendation 23 January 2018
w3.org/TR/activitypub/

#Activity #Vocabulary
#W3C #Recommendation 23 May 2017
w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca…

#XMPP at #FOSDEM in #Brussels

Real Time Communications #Devroom Talk:

#W3C RTC Working Group Update by Romain Vailleux

fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

Start at 13:10. Building: K, Location: K.3.401

#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards

Your daily reminder that the W3C is the standards body of people farming.

#peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #w3c

It’s very interesting reading this and related threads on Web Authentication (“passkeys”).

The ability for people to use their created/associated key material to sign and encrypt their communication would be a huge boon for decentralised web applications. And yet, of course, the related W3C groups reject the use case. Because allowing people (instead of the corporations the W3C represents) to control their own identities is anathema to Big Tech.

github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues…

#bigTech #w3c

Can the private keys be used for other cryptographic operations? · Issue #1595 · w3c/webauthn

For example, can they be used to sign and encrypt data the client passes? This goes beyond authentication, so it may be fair to consider it out of scope, given that "authn" is in the spec...

^GitHub

Handing control of our biometric identities to a handful of trillion-dollar American gatekeeper corporations isn’t the good news you might think it is.

(Don’t forget, the W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.)

In a non-corporate world, your “password” could be so much more… It could be, for example, a mnemonic for the key to a facet of your self that you (and you alone) own and control.

inkl.com/a/aRxNlETAxrA

#w3c #fido #passwords #identity #access #surveillance #capitalism

Apple, Microsoft, and Google are teaming up to eliminate passwords

Good news for the people still using "Password123!"

^inkl