- From: Shane Wiley <wileys@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:58:54 -0800
- To: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- CC: Jeffrey Chester <jeff@democraticmedia.org>, "public-tracking@w3.org" <public-tracking@w3.org>
Karl, Agreed - these are also forms of Inferred location - albeit weaker as its difficult to ascertain if a user is searching for their current destination (less common) versus a location they are interested in learning more about (more common). The Map example is more of a "declared" form of location and falls someone where closer to the registration or user-provided use case. In either example, these are not by-products of cross-site tracking. - Shane -----Original Message----- From: Karl Dubost [mailto:karld@opera.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:18 AM To: Shane Wiley Cc: Jeffrey Chester; public-tracking@w3.org Subject: Re: Issue-39: Tracking of Geographic Data Le 14 déc. 2011 à 10:06, Shane Wiley a écrit : > c. Inferred: Based on generally the IP Address, a map is created to devise the geo-location of the user/agent (quality/confidence erodes as granularity increases) repeated queries of the same search terms, repeated queries of a "from: location" in a map direction scenario, etc. There are many ways to inferred a location from a user. The location is also a strong identifier for scoping the profiling of someone. For example, when you tie statistics about type of residents in certain areas of the city, be in terms of resources levels, religious beliefs, races, countries of origins, etc. This gives more information about the type of consumers you might reach. -- Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/ Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
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