On 10/09/13 00:25, R. Jason Cronk wrote: > Is the data aged? Not AFAIAA.
> What happens if I move? The raw database notes that you are now being detected in a new location. What happens then is up for debate. I'd argue that if your position was fixed for N months before, and it seems fixed again now, we should assume you have moved house and keep the point in the DB. APs which seem to move a lot, or move regularly, should be excluded. > Does this give Mozilla the > ability to historically track me if I move my device? Yes; this is why publishing the full raw stumbled data sets is sadly going to be not possible. >> Our published database would include two tables. The first table would >> map a random row id to metadata about an anonymous access point: >> >> Random1 ==> AP1.latitude, AP1.longitude, ... >> Random2 ==> AP2.latitude, AP2.longitude, ... > > I would be hesitant to use the word anonymous here. Latlong is easily > combine with other publicly available databases that could identify > individual address and thus individuals. Again, it comes down to > granularity of the data. I'm not sure what threat you are seeing. Can you elaborate? This is just a list of latlongs which have a wireless access point. How can this information assist in identifying individuals or their locations? Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
