[mediaqueries-5][editorial] Separate Security and Privacy sections

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:04:43 -0500

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Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
date
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:04:43 -0500
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[mediaqueries-5][editorial] Separate Security and Privacy sections

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     1.1 --- a/mediaqueries-5/Overview.bs	Fri Nov 15 14:51:36 2024 +0100
     1.2 +++ b/mediaqueries-5/Overview.bs	Fri Nov 15 16:04:43 2024 -0500
     1.3 @@ -3683,14 +3683,37 @@
     1.4  		</pre>
     1.5  	</div>
     1.6  
     1.7 -<h2 id=priv-sec class=no-num>
     1.8 -Appendix B: Privacy and Security Considerations</h2>
     1.9 +<h2 id=privacy class=no-num>
    1.10 +Appendix B: Privacy Considerations</h2>
    1.11  
    1.12  	<em>This section is not normative.</em>
    1.13  
    1.14  <div class="non-normative">
    1.15  
    1.16 -	Issue: this section is incomplete
    1.17 +	Issue: this section is <a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Amediaqueries-5+label%3Aprivacy-tracker">incomplete</a> 
    1.18 +
    1.19 +	The 'prefers-reduced-data' media feature
    1.20 +	may be an undesired source of fingerprinting,
    1.21 +	with a bias towards low income with limited data.
    1.22 +
    1.23 +	The {{PreferenceManager}} object allows querying some user-preference [=media features=]. This
    1.24 +	is not a privacy leak, as that information is already trivially
    1.25 +	available by using [=media features=] themselves.
    1.26 +
    1.27 +	The {{PreferenceManager}} object also allows overriding these user-preference [=media features=]; this
    1.28 +	is also neither a privacy nor accessibility regression, as the [=media features=] were already ignorable by simply
    1.29 +	not querying them.
    1.30 +
    1.31 +</div>
    1.32 +
    1.33 +<h2 id=security class=no-num>
    1.34 +	Appendix C: Security Considerations</h2>
    1.35 +	
    1.36 +		<em>This section is not normative.</em>
    1.37 +	
    1.38 +	<div class="non-normative">
    1.39 +
    1.40 +	Issue: this section is <a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Amediaqueries-5+label%3Asecurity-tracker+">incomplete</a>
    1.41  
    1.42  	The 'display-mode' media feature allows an origin
    1.43  	access to aspects of a user’s local computing environment and,
    1.44 @@ -3701,19 +3724,7 @@
    1.45  	exploit the fact that an application is being displayed in fullscreen
    1.46  	to mimic the user interface of another application.
    1.47  
    1.48 -	The 'prefers-reduced-data' media feature
    1.49 -	may be an undesired source of fingerprinting,
    1.50 -	with a bias towards low income with limited data.
    1.51 -
    1.52 -	The {{PreferenceManager}} object allows querying some user-preference [=media features=]. This
    1.53 -	is not a privacy leak, as that information is already trivially
    1.54 -	available by using [=media features=] themselves.
    1.55 -
    1.56 -	The {{PreferenceManager}} object also allows overriding these user-preference [=media features=]; this
    1.57 -	is also neither a privacy nor accessibility regression, as the [=media features=] were already ignorable by simply
    1.58 -	not querying them.
    1.59 -
    1.60 -</div>
    1.61 +	</div>
    1.62  
    1.63  <h2 id="changes" class="no-num">
    1.64  Changes</h2>

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