On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: > Setting aside the policy question, the location API for mobile devices > generally > gives a much more precise estimate of your location than can be obtained > from the upstream network provider. For instance, consider the case of the > ISP upstream from Mozilla's office in Mountain view: they can only localize > a user to within 50 meters or so of the office, whereas GPS is accurate to > a few meters.
Yes, but the privacy impact of such an increase in precision is much less than if you only knew geo IP data. > And of course someone who is upstream from the ISP may just > have standard geo IP data. Are there real-world MITMs who are upstream from the ISP? (Governments presumably compromise the ISP itself by court order or equivalent.) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
