Move fingerprintable APIs behind permissions · Issue #398 · w3c/sensors (original) (raw)

According to the authors of this paper, the standard includes functionality that allows users to be fingerprinted with high fidelity. (quote: “the DeviceMotionEvent APIs, particularly DeviceMotionEvent.acceleration and DeviceMotionEvent.rotationRate”) don’t require permissions to access. The standard needs to be updated so that users cannot be passively fingerpritined.