On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Thomas Wisniewski <wisniews...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Security & Privacy Concerns: this exposes whether the user has pointer that
> is finely controlled like a mouse, or more coarse-grained like a
> touchscreen (or no pointer at all). It also exposes whether they have a
> pointer capable of "hover" effects (like a mouse). This lets sites
> distinguish between the user having a mouse-like device or touchscreen-like
> device, and potentially other devices like stylii. It exposes a little more
> fingerprintable information than -moz-touch-enabled, however it would be
> trivial for anti-fingerprinting measures to always return a specific set of
> values for mobiles vs desktops.

Will those measures be part of the work done (enabled only when
privacy.resistFingerprinting is set)?

-tom
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