- From: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:57:35 +0000
- To: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>
- Cc: Angel Machín <angel.machin@gmail.com>, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>, public-geolocation@w3.org
Hi Greg, On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com> wrote: > > Privacy issues should be left to the UA, not the API. > I agree. This is also the conclusion that the WG reached after intense discussions during the f2f meeting in London back in December. > If this becomes a part of the standard API, the most > popular mobile device supporting GeoLocation won't implement this portion of > the standard. I believe this would be a shame for the standard, but not for > iPhone. > I understand. Note that the proposed wording is for the two subsections of the "privacy considerations" section. I think these subsections should be non-normative. They currently aren't but I think that is accidental and I propose we make them non-normative. They are meant to be guidelines (for both UA implementers and API users) describing how to behave responsibly with regard to privacy when accessing the user's location. Thanks, Andrei
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