- From: Raphael Kubo da Costa via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:57:48 +0000
- To: public-device-apis-log@w3.org
> Seems somewhat scary - this (treating the light sensor as an 1x1 camera) would mean that the red "I am capturing you" light would light up on all tabs that access the ambient light sensor, which is usually a fairly strong indication of privacy exposure. We risk numbing the user to the red light indicator "because it's so frequently on". "Treating the light sensor as a 1x1 camera" was used in the sense of "we want the privacy requirements to be as strict as if an actual camera was being used". However, this spec does not _request_ permission, but only _requires_ it. In other words, it cannot turn on the red "I am capturing you" light on its own -- attempting to start the sensor without having camera capture already happening will result in an error. In this example, the red indicator would light up on multiple tabs if and only if all these tabs are also capturing video. -- GitHub Notification of comment by rakuco Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/ambient-light/pull/83#issuecomment-1358031303 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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