Google's Web Integrity API branded 'attack on the open web'

Google's Web Integrity API branded 'attack on the open web'

Image: Google wants to remove bots from the web, but the technical community says its approach is “completely unethical" A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics, trust and adding DRM to the internet. The Web Environment Integrity API (WEI) is not a heavily promoted project - the documentation is only hosted on an employee’s personal Github account , rather than an official repo - but there are signs that Google is actively working to build the feature into Chrome now....

Published in www.computing.co.uk · by Tom Allen · 4 min read · August 16, 2023