- From: Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 02:49:55 -0400
- To: W3C Device APIs WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>
I'm personally starting to find the duplication of github issues to mailing list a bit annoying. Could we maybe route these to <public-device-apis-issues@w3.org> or something? On July 28, 2016 at 3:04:17 AM, Lukasz Olejnik via GitHub (sysbot+gh@w3.org) wrote: > lknik has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/sensors: > > == Feature Detection of Hardware Features - privacy considerations == > Hello, > > I am wondering if the sole possibility of a sensor detection isn't > expanding identifier/fingerprinting surface. > > For example, one system can have a (geolocationSensor, > proximitySensor,tirePressureSensor) and another can have a different > set of sensors. > > Let's just document it and add the following to the security/privacy > considerations: > > "Ability to detect a full working set of sensors on a device can form > an identifier and could be used to fingerprinting" > > > > Please view or discuss this issue at > https://github.com/w3c/sensors/issues/118 using your GitHub account > >
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