Intent to Ship: Global Privacy Control

[Benjamin VanderSloot]

Hello all,

We intend to ship Global Privacy Control in Firefox 120. We will enable a checkbox in about:preferences#privacy to indicate the user's do-not-sell-or-share preference with a default value "unset." We will also "set" the users' do-not-sell-or-share preference in Private Browsing mode.

Summary: GPC is a signal, transmitted over the `Sec-GPC` HTTP header and through the `navigator.globalPrivacyControl` attribute, that conveys a person's request to websites and services to not sell or share their personal information with third parties. This standard is intended to work with existing and upcoming legal frameworks that render such requests enforceable.

Bug: Bug 1848951 - [meta] Support Global Privacy Control

Specification: https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/

Standards Body: Proposal in W3C PrivacyCG

MDN Page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/globalPrivacyControl and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Sec-GPC

Platform coverage: Desktop

Preference: privacy.globalprivacycontrol.functionality.enabled

Thanks,

Ben

[Mike Conca]

What is the status of this in other browsers?  Thanks.

-Mike

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[Benjamin VanderSloot]

Hi Mike,

Chrome, Edge, and Safari do not offer native support. DuckDuckGo and Brave "set" the users' do-not-sell-or-share preference by default.

There was careful consideration put into not "setting" the preference by default, to better represent our users' choices and make it as legally enforceable as possible, but I'm happy to hear any feedback and talk about it more!

Thanks,

Ben