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Improve guidance on UI for user consenting #353

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few nits

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<h2 id="security-and-privacy">Security and privacy considerations</h2>

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The judgement on how to communicate to the user the known [[#main-privacy-security-threats|threats]]
and mandatory [[#mitigation-strategies|mitigations]] used to protect the user against these threats

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I read this sentence few times and it sounds like implementer has to communicate about "threats and mitigation strategies". IMO, implementer has to communicate about threats and implement mitigation strategies to reduce risks. Information about mitigations are technical and not relevant to the end user.

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The Generic Sensor API and its [=extension specifications=] are agnostic with respect to any user
interface aspects. This specification defines an [[#request-sensor-access|integration point]] to the
Permissions API that implementers can use for [=new information about the user's intent|explicit or implicit user consenting=].

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Maybe link to Permission API spec?

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Permissions API that implementers can use for [=new information about the user's intent|explicit or implicit user consenting=].
In addition, implementers are encouraged to use additional privacy enchancing mechanisms inline
with their product requirements to provide a consistent and cohesive experience. Such mechanisms
can include, for example, global and per-site access controls, page info dialogs, location bar

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per-site => per-origin ?

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anssiko commented Mar 7, 2018

@alexshalamov, thanks for your review comments. I updated the PR accordingly.

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anssiko commented Mar 7, 2018

We can merge this now and do another review pass on the group's call tomorrow, and improve further if new information emerges.

@anssiko anssiko merged commit c1cb03d into master Mar 7, 2018
@anssiko anssiko deleted the user-consenting branch March 7, 2018 13:32
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