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Re: geolocation privacy statement strawman

From: Angel Machín <angel.machin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:45:00 +0100
Message-ID: <5562f69c0903250845x57d97482u29bfa4215279f680@mail.gmail.com>
To: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
Cc: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>, public-geolocation@w3.org
Hi Andrei,

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com> wrote:

>
> User Agents must not send geolocation data to websites without
> expressed permission of the user. Browsers will acquire permission
> through a user interface which will include the document origin URI.
> All permissions should be revocable, and applications should respect
> revoked permissions.
>


IMHO, I think it should be: "permissions *must* be revocable, and
applications *must* respect revoked permissions".

If User Agents store these permissions internally they have to be revocable
by users at any time and the UI must allow it.

Regards,

Angel
Received on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:58:31 GMT

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