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 Google’s New Spyware in Chrome 94, Chrome 94's Idle Detection API

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post Oct 6 2021, 11:50 AM, updated 3y ago

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Chrome 94's Idle Detection API can be abused according to Mozilla and Apple

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Google Chrome 94 is out and with the browser comes a new controversial feature: the Idle Detection API, which can be abused according to Mozilla and Apple.
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/09/22/chrome-94...illa-and-apple/


Google’s New Spyware in Chrome 94
The API goes outside of operations of the browser itself to look at the users keyboard, mouse, and such, and makes that information available to any website leveraging the API. Google says that’s necessary because, “Applications which facilitate collaboration require more global signals about whether the user is idle than are provided by existing mechanisms that only consider a user’s interaction with the application’s own tab.”

Privacy advocates, of course, are crying “foul!”

Tantek Çelik, the web standards lead at Firefox browser developer Mozilla, had already expressed apprehensions on his blog back in July, when Google was already including a watered-down trial version of the API in its browser.

“I have user-surveillance and user-control concerns about the Idle Detection API,” he wrote.
https://fossforce.com/2021/10/googles-new-s...e-in-chrome-94/

 

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