NEW: A deep dive into the privacy war raging within the World Wide Web Consortium, where some of the most secretive companies in the world are wrangling over the future of your data — and their own power — in plain sight. #longread

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As companies like Apple and Google have announced plans to kill off web tracking techniques, the W3C saw an influx of new members from the ad and data industry, who argue these changes are just power grabs by tech giants that are already too powerful https://t.co/NflnApmxCM

But longtime members of the W3C say these new entrants are just concern trolling, using fears about Big Tech's power to derail the development of new privacy standards. And, they fear, these tactics are working. https://t.co/NflnApmxCM

This is the geekiest story I've ever written, but I found it so fascinating.

The W3C is a microcosm of all of the global policy debates around privacy and competition we see playing out right now, but it's engineers, not politicians, doing the talking. https://t.co/NflnApmxCM