From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add GeoClue desktop service. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:22:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1ycqqbs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877fowpcnd.fsf@igalia.com> <87d1yiyp2o.fsf@gnu.org> <877foqgday.fsf@igalia.com> <87vbc5vg2r.fsf@gnu.org> <87io859jsj.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39129) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZU08q-0008N6-Gc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:23:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZU08l-0006iF-Cr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:23:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87io859jsj.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:23:40 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andy Wingo skribis: > However it seems to me that you don't need a location service to get > your location -- any app has basically the right privileges to grovel > through things on its own, either through geo-IP things or via seeing > what wireless hotspots are around, etc. This is what Chromium does for > example. The model isn't "an app will never know my location unless > geoclue authorizes it". It's more like "users sometimes want their apps > to know the user's location, and geoclue can do a good efficient job at > it instead of making each app roll its own implementation". Yeah, good point. WiFi data is definitely available wide-open to programs anyway. Not so much we can do, it seems. Thanks for your feedback, Ludo=E2=80=99.