Re: no longer possible to detect battery presence? RE: Battery API in Last Call

that's ridiculous; you might as well argue that the presence or absence of
the battery API itself is a privacy violation, since it allows some
fingerprinting

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote:

> On 12/02/2011 12:59 AM, Carr, Wayne wrote:
>
>> It appears that changes in the Last Call draft have made it so there
>> is no way to distinguish between a full battery and no battery being
>> present.  Was the ability to detect a battery being present
>> intentionally removed?
>>
>
> I hope so.
> Being able to detect whether or not there is a battery
> would be a privacy violation and would allow some
> fingerprinting.

Received on Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:24:51 UTC