- From: ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:44:10 -0700
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- CC: mdw@w3.org, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
While this draft of the Geolocation API has a stronger privacy section, it does not discuss specific mechanisms, nor does it talk about minimization. Perhaps Matt could shed some light on the WG thinking on these issues. Question: do the "accuracy" attributes allow the user to invoke a "fuzzy" option on his location to say, for example, just the country and city not the street and house number? or am I missing something? All the best, Ashok On 8/22/2011 2:39 PM, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > Matt: trying to sort out my overdue TAG actions, I don't think I ever heard back from you on this. We'll be having a F2F mid-Sept, and while this isn't super-urgent, I'd appreciate any information you happen to have easily available. Many thanks. > > Noah > > On 5/10/2011 8:43 PM, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: >> Matt, >> >> That TAG has been doing some work on privacy and Web API "minimization". >> Some months ago I took a TAG action to find out whether the Geolocation >> working group ever decided to adopt some means of controlling access to >> location information on a per-application or per-site basis, and if so what. >> >> I do see your "4.1 Privacy considerations for implementors of the >> Geolocation API" [1]. Is there anything else that we should be aware of, >> whether in the specs or being debated for the future? Thank you very much. >> >> BTW: www-tag is a public mailing list, and you are welcome to relay this >> note, or a link to it, to members of the Geolocation WG if you think they >> would be interested. Thank you very much >> >> Noah >> >> [1] http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html#privacy_for_uas >> >> P.S. Tracker, this relates to TAG ACTION-501 >
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