Privacy advocate, Adobe director to lead Do Not Track talks

A privacy advocate and a director at Adobe will take over the contentious and stalled Do Not Track talks at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group's stakeholders were told during a weekly conference call.

Adobe’s Carl Cargill and Justin Brookman, from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), join Intel’s Matthias Schunter as co-chairs of the stakeholder group. Cargill is Adobe’s standards principal, while Brookman leads the CDT’s Project on Consumer Privacy. Carill and Brookman replace outgoing co-chair Peter Swire, who was selected for the White House’s surveillance review panel last month. Prior to Swire, the group was led by Stanford University’s Aleecia McDonald.