Ajith,
Exactly!
>
> Well, if *that* really is the point of contention, consider these: one, a
> fact and the other, a certain possibility:
>
> 1. The OS already knows the time zone it is configured to be in. Time
> zones are related to geographical location, and I do agree that the
> precision of correlation does vary from case to case. Also, when somebody
> gets on a plane or space ship, it is no longer valid. However, the point
> is that it knows (possibly coarsely) the correct location, most of the time
> (assuming limited travel). Imagine that you live your day-to-day life in a
> small timezone like SGT (Singapore); in which case the location can be good
> to a 50 km x 50 km accuracy.
>
> 2. The OS of tomorrow may know a lot more than that. In the future, PDA's
> and notebooks might come with embedded GPS, and/or pick up location off a
> Bluetooth or UWB service in the vicinity providing location beacons.... or
> using other means you can imagine.
>
> I'm not saying that HTML geo-tags are the most pressing geo-privacy problem
> we have ! But, I recognise that the problem is about:
>
> 1. Having a language for expressing user control over release of
> location information (machine readable policy)
> 2. Bringing such HTML creation programs under policy control.
>
> And I think (1) has much to do with the geo-privacy work in this WG !
>
Received on Thu Feb 7 07:12:02 2002
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