- From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:40:55 +0200
- To: "public-geolocation@w3.org" <public-geolocation@w3.org>
- CC: locweb@lists.berkeley.edu
hello. after listening to a great privacy talk at WWW2009, the following question came to mind: a major share of web sites people visit these days are doing privacy-related things by using 3rd party cookies or scripts. user ahvior tracking gets increasingly sophisticated and trackers move from simple cookie-based to 3rd part scripts. is there any impact this should have to the geolocation API? or should 3rd part scripts (typically served by tracking services) have full access to location information? modern browsers have individual security settings for 1st party cookies and 3rd part cookies, and a possible strategy to at least mitigate location leakage to trackers would be to say that client should/must (that of course is up to discussion) provide control over location information provided to 3rd party scripts. cheers, dret. PS: http://www2009.org/proceedings/pdf/p541.pdf
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