- From: James E. A. via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:57:17 +0000
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> …geofencing likely meeting less scrutiny from implementers Why, though? If that's really where implementers are at, I think they're exactly wrong — geofencing has *infinitely* higher privacy risk and \(I claim, based on this very thread,\) approximately **zero** use-cases. > By saying 'extending foreground-acquired location' I assume you mean the app should continue working in the background while the user is doing anything else on their device. This is part of the problem… Yes, persisting location access would likely entail a wake lock \(not a screen lock, though!\) But I think that's not exactly a "problem", since *of course* I don't want my phone going all the way into deep sleep and shutting off the GPS antenna when I'm *trying* to record a bike ride, or a truck ride, or a hike, or a ski trip, or... -- GitHub Notification of comment by James-E-A Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/geolocation-sensor/issues/22#issuecomment-3494313018 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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