Post #1952307

2024-12-12 08:23 UTC

Today is a big day. The Ethical Web Principles has been published as a W3C Statement, meaning it’s now fully endorsed by the W3C. More info here: https://www.w3.org/news/2024/ethical-web-principles-is-a-w3c-statement/ #EthicalWebPrinciples These principles already have started to influence the development of web specifications percolating through the W3C, both directly and via other guidelines docs like the Design Principles and Privacy Principles. Kudos to @hadleybeeman, @rhiaro and the rest of the @tag.

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@hdv@front-end.social 2024-12-12 08:35

@torgo@mastodon.social @hadleybeeman@w3c.social @rhiaro@toot.cat @tag@w3c.social Woohoo, great to see! 👏 And the first of its kind, it looks like? https://www.w3.org/TR/?filter-tr-name=&status%5B%5D=stmt

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@csarven@w3c.social 2024-12-12 09:59

@torgo@mastodon.social @hadleybeeman@w3c.social @rhiaro@toot.cat @tag@w3c.social Thanks for sharing / getting it out! Great milestone for the technical standards community. Have been referencing EWP as the north star in https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol#introduction (c. 2021 if not much earlier): >We acknowledge that every technical decision has ethical implications both for the end user (short-term) as well as society (long-term). To contribute towards a net positive social benefit, we use the Ethical Web Principles [ETHICAL-WEB-PRINCIPLES] to orient ourselves.

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@photom@mastodon.social 2024-12-12 12:02

@torgo@mastodon.social @hadleybeeman@w3c.social @rhiaro@toot.cat @tag@w3c.social can you guys explain the practical outcomes, so a layman can understand?

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