1135612 - Vidya Mantra EduSystems Pvt. Ltd.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Screen Sharing Whitelist, defect)

Description

[Jai Gupta]

>> Vendor name
Vidya Mantra EduSystems Pvt. Ltd.

>> Point of contact
Jai Gupta

>> Site URLs
https://d.vidya.io/
https://l.vidya.io/

>> Does the application provide users with notice and control?
Our application is a Open Source Virtual Class application, intended to be compatible with leading LMS (Moodle).

Links
https://github.com/vidyamantra/virtualclass
https://moodle.org/plugins/stats.php?plugin=mod_virtualclass

With this application, teachers are able to share their screen with other students. Teachers is always able to view what is being shared (viewable on his browser screen) and to whom (list of participants connected with teacher's room). By default whiteboard (not user's screen) is shared with other participants, only when teacher clicks on screen sharing button and after teacher chooses a windows from list of availables options, his screen is shared with students/

This application will be used by schools, universities and few corporates mostly for educational purpose.

>> Have you seen and agree with the Developer Screen Sharing Submission policy?
Yes

>> Does the usage comply with the Developer Screen Sharing Submission Policy guidelines?
Yes

Comment 1

[:shell escalante]

looks good for use - do you have a link to a policy on if you collect any information and how it's used/shared with others?  that is the most risky part - if private info is collected and shared with partners.

Comment 2

[Jai Gupta]

Thank you for your review.

We are building an open source application and will be used by people around the world.
Application has functionality to record audio, screen and other parts of session and later play it back. It depends on settings teacher has done at it's end. Essentially teacher or organization using this application will be responsible for privacy policy.

At our end, we don't store or collect any such information.

Comment 3

[:shell escalante]

Hi, I am resolving this bug as "won't fix", since starting Firefox 52 on April 18th the Screensharing whitelist is no longer needed to share your screen or windows. Please let us know if you find any problems!

        Much of this work was front-end, UX/UI changes, including support to let the UI know what streams are "scary" to share (see bug 1284910). See the meta bug 1127522 for all the work that went into this.

        Please read Jan-Ivar's blog post explaining the risks that users need to know about when sharing their screen or windows: https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/share-browser-windows-entire-screen-sites-trust/.

        The new UI permission dialog for screensharing links to a SUMO article with similar content to Jan-Ivar's post, but our SUMO team tailored it to a less technical user.