[ambient-light] Permissions for verbose readout of ALS

lknik has just created a new issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/ambient-light:

== Permissions for verbose readout of ALS ==
Verbose readout of Ambient Light Sensors might create several issues 
from privacy perspective (e.g cross-domain communication, cross-device
 linking, profiling), consider also 
http://lukaszolejnik.com/SensorsPrivacyReport.pdf. 
In this view we should decide if ASL will be subject to permissions? 

An interesting idea is to expose a minimized readout using 
MediaQueries terminology 
(https://www.w3.org/TR/mediaqueries-4/#light-level) without 
permissions, and require them for more verbose readout. This would 
make most of the privacy issues much less conceivable.
I already discussed this in private with Tobie.

I believe privacy considerations should be proposed after deciding 
this, since this impacts them directly (in my current draft, I propose
 ASL should be subject to permissions).

Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/ambient-light/issues/10 using your GitHub 
account

Received on Saturday, 4 June 2016 21:56:22 UTC