privacy review of Input Events spec

Hey,

Invited by Chaals, Christine and Tara, I attended the Privacy Interest
Group meeting discuss potential privacy issues with the Input Events spec
and I think that went well. Basically they gave thumbs up for what we have
come up with so far.

They had two major points:

* In the future, if we should ever want to add the source of before/input
events (keyboard, voice input, etc.), we should have a debate about what
privacy implications that may have. The current specs should not be
affected.

* In the privacy section of the spec, we should add something about the
advantages of this spec in relation to using key events from a privacy
viewpoint. I said that in theory, should we one day not have key events any
more, it should be more difficult to sniff for example whether someone has
a Serbian-language hardware keyboard or whether the user is using a
softkeyboard or some other input method.

Of course there are issues with the second point -- if someone inputs an
entire word via voice input, it is still quite clear that this likely
doesn't come from a hardware keyboard. But at least in theory, the spec may
one day improve the situation (mildly). I said I would write a few words
about that and we should then probably have the same text in both level 1
and 2.

With that done, we are now waiting mainly for the TAG review.

@Gary: I saw there has been a transfer of the static range spec to W3C and
that discussion has started on it. Should I try to update the link?

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Johannes Wilm
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