Core Privacy Agenda – 21 Nov 2018 – New Time

When/Where: Join us in #core-privacy on Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. on Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 1900 UTC

Agenda:

  • Update on WP 5 testing/patches
  • Update on 3rd party code (Twitter, Facebook, Quantcast?) on WP.org footers (@allendav)
  • Update on WP mobile app permissions and tracking (@allendav)
  • Update on Google Fonts in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ (@allendav and @desrosj)
  • Google Captcha 3.0

What the Cool Privacy Kids Are Reading / Trying This Week:

  • Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years – https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/proposed-data-privacy-law-could-send-company-execs-to-prison-for-20-years/
  • Google accused of trust demolition – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-46206677

Upcoming WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. (and other Event) Privacy Talks:

  • Planned talks
  • SURPRISE! https://2018.us.wordcamp.org/session/whats-privacy-got-to-do-with-it/
  • Opportunities
  • ???

Helpful links:

  • Core Privacy Component Home Page https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/privacy/
  • Core Privacy Posts https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/core-privacy/
  • Core Privacy Roadmap https://make.wordpress.org/core/roadmap/privacy/
  • Plugin Privacy Handbook https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/privacy/
  • Open Privacy Component Tickets https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&component=Privacy&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority

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