diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1a67944..7184137 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ nut (2.7.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     (Closes: #733189)
   * debian/control, debian/rules: Call dh-autoreconf and pass LDFLAGS to
     minimize runtime dependencies
+  * debian/patches/0008-drop-w3c-icons.patch: Remove the link to external W3C
+    icons to prevent privacy breach (privacy-breach-w3c-valid-html)
 
- -- Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:25:23 +0200
+ -- Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:44:35 +0200
 
 nut (2.7.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/0008-drop-w3c-icons.patch b/debian/patches/0008-drop-w3c-icons.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac05a34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0008-drop-w3c-icons.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+--- a/conf/upsstats.html.sample
++++ b/conf/upsstats.html.sample
+@@ -180,11 +180,4 @@ Network UPS Tools upsstats
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+ 
+-<hr /><div><small>
+-<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><img style="float:right" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!" height="31" width="88"/></a>
+-<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img style="float:right"
+-src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html40"
+-alt="Valid HTML 4.0 Transitional" height="31" width="88"></a>
+-</small></div>
+-
+ </body></html>
+--- a/conf/upsstats-single.html.sample
++++ b/conf/upsstats-single.html.sample
+@@ -286,9 +286,6 @@
+ </tr>
+ 
+ </table>
+-<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img style="float:right"
+-        src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html40"
+-        alt="Valid HTML 4.0 Transitional" height="31" width="88"></a>
+ 
+ </body>
+ </html>
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 09a762e..5046408 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 0004-fix-systemd-service.patch
 0006-ups-conf-maxretry.patch
 0007-killpower-path.patch
+0008-drop-w3c-icons.patch