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Revision as of 20:38, 30 April 2014
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====Principle: Transparency / No Surprises==== | ====Principle: Transparency / No Surprises==== | ||
The feature appears to be designed in such a way as to assist users in finding apps or services that are compatible with the hardware of their phone/tablet device. However, the use of this api outside of privelaged applications or the Marketplace application itself should be closely examined as the possibility exists such that the API could be misused to fingerprint an individual users. <br> | |||
''Recommendations'':<br> | |||
In Mozilla's use of the api we should not store this information other than for point in time usage or it should be gathered and stored in such a way that we can not identify and individual user but can still in aggregate see usage statistics for research purposes. | |||
====Principle: Real Choice==== | ====Principle: Real Choice==== | ||