ISSUE-2: Should the Geolocation API include privacy information?

privacy

Should the Geolocation API include privacy information?

State:
CLOSED
Product:
GeoAPI V1
Raised by:
Matt Womer
Opened on:
2009-03-25
Description:
The Geolocation WG has long been considering how to best deal with user privacy, and whether the API itself should have hooks for privacy or if the document should require or recommend specific UA behavior.

The WG has had proposals from the IETF GeoPriv working group to include a of number privacy related items in the Coordinates object. See ISSUE-4 (http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/track/issues/4 ) for details.

During the December 2008 F2F we concluded that we would publish without including the items requested by the GEOPRIV WG in the Position object, but would include a note that further privacy text would be included in the next draft. The group is currently working through what the final text should say before publication as Last Call, this is being tracked in ISSUE-5 (http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/track/issues/5 ).
Related Actions Items:
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Related emails:
  1. Re: updated editor's draft of the Geolocation API specification (from andreip@google.com on 2009-05-04)
  2. RE: editor's draft should link to last published draft (from althomso@cisco.com on 2009-04-03)
  3. RE: editor's draft should link to last published draft (from althomso@cisco.com on 2009-04-03)
  4. Re: editor's draft should link to last published draft (from doug.turner@gmail.com on 2009-04-03)
  5. Re: editor's draft should link to last published draft (from doug.turner@gmail.com on 2009-04-03)
  6. Re: editor's draft should link to last published draft (from andreip@google.com on 2009-04-03)
  7. Re: editor's draft should link to last published draft (from andreip@google.com on 2009-04-03)
  8. Re: editor's draft should link to last published draft (from andreip@google.com on 2009-04-03)
  9. Re: editor's draft should link to last published draft (from lbolstad@opera.com on 2009-04-03)
  10. Re: ISSUE-4 (privacy-geopriv): GEOPRIV WG proposal for privacy within the API (from andreip@google.com on 2009-03-26)
  11. Re: ISSUE-4 (privacy-geopriv): GEOPRIV WG proposal for privacy within the API (from mdw@w3.org on 2009-03-26)
  12. Re: ISSUE-4 (privacy-geopriv): GEOPRIV WG proposal for privacy within the API (from doug.turner@gmail.com on 2009-03-26)
  13. Re: ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from doug.turner@gmail.com on 2009-03-26)
  14. Re: ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from mdw@w3.org on 2009-03-26)
  15. Re: ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from andreip@google.com on 2009-03-26)
  16. Re: ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from jmorris@cdt.org on 2009-03-26)
  17. Re: ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from andreip@google.com on 2009-03-26)
  18. Re: ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from andreip@google.com on 2009-03-25)
  19. Re: ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from mdw@w3.org on 2009-03-25)
  20. Re: ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from doug.turner@gmail.com on 2009-03-25)
  21. ISSUE-2 (privacy): Should the Geolocation API include privacy information? (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2009-03-25)

Related notes:

IETF Liaison statement: https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/486/

Matt Womer, 25 Mar 2009, 17:11:36

http://www.w3.org/2008/12/08-geolocation-minutes.html#item02 f2f discussion on privacy

Matt Womer, 25 Mar 2009, 17:12:15

Email threads on privacy:
* http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2008Oct/0070.html
* http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2008Oct/0121.html
* http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2009Mar/0046.html

Matt Womer, 25 Mar 2009, 17:14:51

IETF Liaison statement: https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/486/

Matt Womer, 26 Mar 2009, 17:33:50

This looks like a duplicate of

http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/track/issues/4

After careful and extended consideration, the WG has decided to include a normative Privacy section that provides rules that user agents and recipients of location information (i.e. Web sites) must follow in order to deal with location information responsibly. The wording was discussed in the following issue:

http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/track/issues/5

Andrei Popescu, 4 May 2009, 17:43:20

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