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Issue #144 - Add fingerprinting to Security & Privacy considerations section
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miketaylr authored Dec 21, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ We hope that alternative methods or APIs will exist to address the
spam filtering and bot detection use cases in the future, as browsers may decide
to intervene on behalf of their users by limiting the collection of
user-identifying entropy (e.g., the
[Privacy Budget](https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget proposal).
[Privacy Budget](https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget) proposal).

### Persistent user tracking
This is a case of fingerprinting that this proposal *explicitly tries to make
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Delegation {#delegation}
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Client Hints will be delegated from top-level pages via Feature Policy. This reduces the likelihood that [=user agent=]
Client Hints will be delegated from top-level pages via Permissions Policy. This reduces the likelihood that [=user agent=]
information will be delivered along with subresource requests, which reduces the potential for
passive fingerprinting.

That delegation is defined as part of [=append client hints to request=].

Fingerprinting {#fingerprinting}
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The primary goal of User Agent Client Hints is to reduce the default entropy
available to the network for passive fingerprinting. However, it will still be possible
for some, or all, hints to be requested and used for active fingerprinting purposes by
first or delegated third parties. As noted in [[#access]], [=User agents=] should consider
policies to restrict or reduce access to parties that are known to actively
fingerprint their users.

Access Restrictions {#access}
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