- From: tangobravo via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:29:59 +0000
- To: public-geolocation@w3.org
@richtr - Although I agree that fingerprinting concerns are likely to be solvable with some of the mitigations you mention that is not the only potential privacy concern. To take one example; even heavily quantized, obfuscated, and reduced-frequency sensor data would give some information about whether the user is standing up or lying down. Whether that is a significant enough privacy concern to require explicit user consent is certainly debatable (most vendors appear not to think so at the moment), but it does appear Apple / WebKit have made their minds up here. I believe spatial computing use cases on the web would survive a permissions prompt. It would be unfortunate however to have a widely-released iOS version with the API disabled by default **and** without a permissions API implemented. So I still hope for the final iOS 12.2 release Apple will either have an opt-in permissions API implemented or will decide to flip the default setting until that permissions API is ready. To me that strikes a good balance between addressing privacy concerns but without being quite as hostile to web developers who depend on these features. -- GitHub Notification of comment by tangobravo Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/issues/57#issuecomment-461522100 using your GitHub account
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