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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

visit a web page that requests your current location, for example http
://where-am-i.net it prompts to get permission to share the current
location, hit allow and it will probably show where you were a few hours
ago as the GPS will have a cached location. Refreshing won't update the
location, only applications that subscribe to updates cause the GPS to
get a new location.

The problem here is that I authorised the web page to know where I am
now. I am OK with giving my current position to the web page requesting
it. I *didn't* authorise it to know where I was yesterday or this
morning, and I might have reasons to not want it to know where my house
is, even though I am fine with it knowing where I am right now.

The web browser app should not reveal GPS locations that are older than
the decision to allow location to be shared with the page.

** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551686

Title:
  browser leaks old location data to web pages

Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  visit a web page that requests your current location, for example http
  ://where-am-i.net it prompts to get permission to share the current
  location, hit allow and it will probably show where you were a few
  hours ago as the GPS will have a cached location. Refreshing won't
  update the location, only applications that subscribe to updates cause
  the GPS to get a new location.

  The problem here is that I authorised the web page to know where I am
  now. I am OK with giving my current position to the web page
  requesting it. I *didn't* authorise it to know where I was yesterday
  or this morning, and I might have reasons to not want it to know where
  my house is, even though I am fine with it knowing where I am right
  now.

  The web browser app should not reveal GPS locations that are older
  than the decision to allow location to be shared with the page.

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