Closed Bug 1191853 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Prompt user before enabling battery API

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(fennec-)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
fennec - ---

People

(Reporter: snorp, Unassigned)

References

Details

I guess bad guys are using the battery API to uniquely identify users. We should probably guard this like we do the location API. I'm sure there are other fingerprinting methods still available, but this one is easy to fix.
I think rounding is the right mitigation here
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
tracking-fennec: ? → -
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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