tomayac’s avatartomayac’s Twitter Archive—№ 15,281

  1. In-depth thread by @firt on precise or coarse location sharing 📍 in iOS 14 and what of this (if anything, no spoilers) is Web-exposed (in Safari, WKWebView, and home screen apps). Love the constructive call-to-action at the end: x.com/firt/status/1279489039461163009
    1. …in reply to @tomayac
      @firt Note that coarse location sharing isn’t a new idea at all (but, to be fair, now for the first time implemented by the @webkit team). See Figure 3 of my paper: research.google/pubs/pub48156/. Wonder how they deal with the issues mentioned in the paper. Getting the country right is nice.
      1. …in reply to @tomayac
        @firt @webkit Or, to be precise, WebKit inherits coarse location sharing from the operating system. Question is, as @firt notes, what they will do with it.