- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:48:58 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Cc: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
* Karl Dubost wrote: >There are a few ways to fake geolocation, but not a standard way yet. >This could be important for privacy and also for testing purposes. Apart from testing it would seem to make something believable you'd need to actually emulate something with movement and something that fits with your IP address, otherwise it is easy to simply treat the "faked" infor- mation the same as "user disabled geolocation" which would render faking it pointless, beyond perhaps compatibility with web sites that blindly assume geolocation information is available, if implementations of the API allow you to tell the difference. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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