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Fix #13: Expand Security and Privacy Considerations #33

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Fix #13: Expand Security and Privacy Considerations
anssiko Aug 16, 2017
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Use 'one or both' over 'and'
anssiko Aug 16, 2017
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Remove redundancy, make text concise
anssiko Aug 17, 2017
77ebda1
Note cross-origin in potential privacy risks
anssiko Aug 17, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ Ambient Light Sensor provides information about lighting conditions near
the device environment. Potential privacy risks include:

- Profiling. Ambient Light Sensor can leak information about user's use
patterns and surrounding. This information can be used to enhance user
profiling and behavioral analysis.
patterns and surrounding cross-origin. This information can be used to
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Not sure about "surrounding cross-origin"? The surrounding in my mind here was the physical environment ;)

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I defer to a native speaker to give me a grammar lesson.

"Can leak information ... cross-origin."

Sounds good to me.

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It's not about the language ;) Cross-origin sounds like we're speaking about web/origins. I'm speaking about surrounding, like, even the physical environment.

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Please give us a concrete suggestion. A complete sentence.

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@lknik, I'm trying to understand what is the concrete suggestion you are trying to make. Are you suggesting we remote the word "cross-origin", i.e. revert commit 77ebda1 ?

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Yeah, revert. It ("merge") mangled a few things

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Thanks, done.

enhance user profiling and behavioral analysis.
- Cross-device linking. Two devices can access web sites that include the
same third-party script that correlates lighting levels over time.
- Cross-device communication. A simple broadcast communication method can
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Expand Up @@ -1554,8 +1554,8 @@ <h2 class="heading settled" data-level="3" id="security-and-privacy"><span class
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<p>Profiling. Ambient Light Sensor can leak information about user’s use
patterns and surrounding. This information can be used to enhance user
profiling and behavioral analysis.</p>
patterns and surrounding cross-origin. This information can be used to
enhance user profiling and behavioral analysis.</p>
<li data-md="">
<p>Cross-device linking. Two devices can access web sites that include the
same third-party script that correlates lighting levels over time.</p>
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