- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:52:22 +0200
- To: public-geolocation@w3.org
On 7/5/10 4:48 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: > Hi Geolocation WG, > > I recently wrote a paper on the privacy of geolocation implementations > [1] for the W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs. > > Although it does not directly comment on the specification, it > critically evaluates the control and information available to end-users > when location services are being used. > > In the paper, I look at: > > * Opera (labs build) > * Firefox 3.6 > * Mobile Safari > * Chrome 6 > > http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/papers/privacy-ws-21.pdf > > As this is a fast moving area, the paper is already a bit out of date: > For instance, Opera addressed most of the issues raised in the paper in > the 10.6 release. And iOS4 added an indicator for geolocation. Also, > during my analysis of Mobile Safari, I missed that there was a way to > reset location based services for all applications. > > Anyway, hopefully you will find the paper of some use. > > Kind regards, > Marcos > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/ Whoops! paper is here: http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/papers/privacy-ws-21.pdf -- Marcos Caceres Opera Software
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