wake-lock privacy considerations from Christine Runnegar on 2016-07-29 (public-privacy@w3.org from July to September 2016)

From: Christine Runnegar <runnegar@isoc.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:41:10 +0000
To: "public-privacy@w3.org" <public-privacy@w3.org>
Message-ID: <F6AA9B0F-D1D7-4A78-9B4E-F23AA42DAEEF@isoc.org>

Hello everyone,

During our call yesterday, Marta from Blockchain very kindly volunteered to compile our privacy comments regarding the Wake-Lock API.

https://www.w3.org/TR/wake-lock/

Please review the draft specification and share your views.

To get us started, here are some of the questions raised yesterday:

- If a web application makes a wake-lock request that is implemented by the user agent, what does this mean for other applications that are set to allow access to geolocation, NFC, camera, microphone when the screen is on? 
- Should this feature only be available in secure contexts?

Christine (PING co-chair)

Received on Friday, 29 July 2016 07:41:46 UTC