- From: John Morris <jmorris@cdt.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 21:47:09 -0500
- To: public-geolocation@w3.org
- Cc: richard.barnes@gmail.com, Alissa Cooper <acooper@cdt.org>
Hi all, Following up on a number of threads on this list, Richard Barnes, Alissa Cooper and (to a lesser extent) I have been working on a version of the current spec that includes support for privacy rules and civic addressing. The suggested revision is available at http://geopriv.dreamhosters.com/w3c-spec/spec-source.html. It would be great to get a discussion going on the list about it in advance of the face-to-face meeting next week. The big changes from the current working draft are in the Position interface section, the Security and privacy considerations section, and the Use cases section (although there are minor changes to other sections as well). The Position interface supports new attributes corresponding to privacy rules and civic addresses. The Security and privacy considerations section goes into detail about what the behaviors of the recipients of location should be in response to receiving privacy rules. That section also details the kind of support that UAs would need to provide in order to allow users to express their privacy preferences and to have those preferences conveyed as appropriate to the recipients of location. We created the structure of the privacy rules and the corresponding location recipient and UA behaviors to be consistent with the analogous concepts developed by the Geopriv WG at the IETF. In the Use cases section, we added text to each of the use cases to demonstrate the functionality of the privacy rules. Although the proposed draft does not implement every aspect of Geopriv, we believe that it would be an appropriate way for this WG to address the privacy concerns that relate to location information (and would, in the end, make an important contribution to the protection of privacy). Because -- as is clear from the discussions on this list -- privacy issues can be difficult and the implications of the support for privacy rules in particular may not be immediately apparent, we think that it would be useful to develop an accompanying document with a series of extended examples to demonstrate how the new functionality could work in practice. We're interested to know if others think this might be useful too. We look forward to your feedback. John
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