From 77babbc07a0d6c67ec3a17a54591a34d4e875f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rick Waldron Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:47:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Additional text added to, per Feature Detection of Hardware Features - privacy considerations. Closes gh-118 Signed-off-by: Rick Waldron --- index.bs | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/index.bs b/index.bs index 57475ae..7253a82 100644 --- a/index.bs +++ b/index.bs @@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ Web application developers that use sensors should perform a privacy assessment of their application taking all aspects of their application into consideration. +Ability to detect a full working set of sensors on a device can form an identifier and could be used to fingerprinting + Browsing Context {#browsing-context} ---------------- From 46147e25112d4c72edc58e84ee3ef987527dd0e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rick Waldron Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:49:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Out of band communication. Fixes gh-119 BLOCKED BY #121 Signed-off-by: Rick Waldron --- index.bs | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/index.bs b/index.bs index 7253a82..3e51b41 100644 --- a/index.bs +++ b/index.bs @@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ taking all aspects of their application into consideration. Ability to detect a full working set of sensors on a device can form an identifier and could be used to fingerprinting +A combination of selected sensors can potentially be used to form an out of band communication channel between devices. + +Sensors can potentially be used in cross-device linking and tracking of a user. + Browsing Context {#browsing-context} ----------------