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It should be clear that FLoC will never be able to prevent all misuse. There will be categories that are sensitive in contexts that weren't predicted. Beyond FLoC's technical means of preventing abuse, sites that use cohorts will need to ensure that people are treated fairly, just as they must with algorithmic decisions made based on any other data today.

### Opting Out of Computation
A site should be able to declare that it does not want to be included in the user's list of sites for cohort calculation. This can be accomplished via a new `interest-cohort` [permissions policy](https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy-1/). This policy will be default allow. Any frame that is not allowed `interest-cohort` permission will have a default value returned when they call `document.interestCohort()`. If the main frame does not have `interest-cohort` permission then the page visit will not be included in interest cohort calculation.
### Opting Into Computation
A site should be able to declare whether it should be included in the user's list of sites for cohort calculation. This can be accomplished via a new `interest-cohort` [permissions policy](https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy-1/). This policy will be default deny, so that older sites serving sensitive audiences do not inadvertantly contribute to training inappropriate cohorts in the time between FLoC release and the time the sites are fixed. Any frame that is not allowed `interest-cohort` permission will have a default value returned when they call `document.interestCohort()`. If the main frame does not have `interest-cohort` permission then the page visit will not be included in interest cohort calculation.

## Proof of Concept Experiment
As a first step toward implementing FLoC, browsers will need to perform closed experiments in order to find a good clustering method to assign users to cohorts and to analyze them to ensure that they’re not revealing sensitive information about users. We consider this the proof-of-concept (POC) stage. The initial phase will be an experiment with cohorts to ensure that they are sufficiently private to be made publicly available to the web. This phase will inform any potential additional phases which would focus on other goals.
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