- From: James E. A. via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:31:09 +0000
- To: public-device-apis-log@w3.org
> Why can't we simply have yet another permission that clearly states that the location could be tracked in the background? The ability to *acquire* my location while not in the foreground is something I will personally *never* authorize on any device I own \(besides explicit ultra-power-user cases like Tasker actions or child-tracking apps\). I can't even see what a legitimate use-case for that might be, in a **web app**. If you simply mean the ability to *maintain* foreground-acquired location access while backgrounded, I think that scarely even warrants a separate permission from regular location access, *provided* the user-facing notification about the site's continuous access is ultra-conspicuous (like the notification that Waze and Google Maps use to keep themselves alive in the background). -- GitHub Notification of comment by James-E-A Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/geolocation-sensor/issues/22#issuecomment-3494257191 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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