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Geolocation and Privacy
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Date:
– Japan Standard Time
Status:
Tentative
Location:
R06
Participants:
Marijn Kruisselbrink, Matthew Reynolds, Vincent Scheib
Big meeting:
TPAC 2025 (Calendar)

A discussion on geolocation and privacy.

Approximate Geolocation proposes to give sites the ability to request obfuscated position estimates. Obfuscation protects user privacy by making it more difficult for sites to recover the user's true location. We'll review IETF GEOPRIV recommendations for location obfuscation and discuss how obfuscation was implemented for Mozilla's Geode add-on.

We'll recap the history of geolocation on the web platform. What were the influences that resulted in Geolocation API's privacy model? How did the Geofencing and Geolocation Sensor proposals approach location privacy? How do current proposals address privacy concerns?

Open discussion on the future of location privacy on the web.

Agenda

Chairs:
Matthew Reynolds

Description:
A discussion on geolocation and privacy.

Approximate Geolocation proposes to give sites the ability to request obfuscated position estimates. Obfuscation protects user privacy by making it more difficult for sites to recover the user's true location. We'll review IETF GEOPRIV recommendations for location obfuscation and discuss how obfuscation was implemented for Mozilla's Geode add-on.

We'll recap the history of geolocation on the web platform. What were the influences that resulted in Geolocation API's privacy model? How did the Geofencing and Geolocation Sensor proposals approach location privacy? How do current proposals address privacy concerns?

Open discussion on the future of location privacy on the web.

Goal(s):
Review geolocation privacy considerations, feedback on current proposals

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