Open questions with regard to Privacy?

Hi,

I have been invited to the next W3C Privacy Interest Group at the end of
this month (March 28) to present the work on accessing camera and
microphone, and discuss what our open questions are with regard to its
impact on privacy (and possible mitigations thereof).

I would be interested in hearing views from the task force on which of
our most important unresolved issues are in this field.

The ones that come to my mind are:
* general risks associated with authorizing access to camera/microphone
(e.g. spying), and the difficulties of managing consent over time

* the risks associated with divulging a lot of information on the user
hardware set up (both for fingerprinting and profiling)

* the links between giving consent for one device vs giving consent for
many devices

* the ambiguity between giving consent to a Web app and giving consent
to the person(s) we're talking with over WebRTC

* the lack of general guidance on fingerprinting,

* the lack of general guidance linking consent to a top-level (vs
any-level, vs?) browsing context

Thanks,

Dom

Received on Monday, 11 March 2013 09:27:44 UTC