- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:03:05 +0100
- To: Nicholas Doty <npdoty@w3.org>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
* Nicholas Doty wrote: >I think that's not quite right. In fact, your Android device will still >send home the _nomap SSID and its MAC address to Google, specifically so >that Google can remove the MAC from its geolocation database (where it's >almost certainly already collected). This will make it harder to test, >and require us to trust that these geolocation providers will remove any >previously collected data, but enables retroactive opting out, which is >essential here. You simply purge information that's not kept fresh from the database. It doesn't really matter whether this "opt-out" takes a couple of weeks, or a couple of weeks, to take effect. Consider how many Windows Phone users come by your ranch per month to opt you out of Microsoft's database, and whether Microsoft should have kept your access point in the database in the first place, considering it's rather personally identifiying with no other access points nearby. Everything about your "constantly report on those who try to opt-out" model is wrong. -- 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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