A recently released paper has shown [1] how the HTML5 Battery API [2] can be used to accurately track devices. It would be nice to have a privacy option to disable access to the API.
[1] Lukasz Olejnik et al.. The leaking battery A privacy analysis of the HTML5 Battery Status API PDF
[2] Battery Status API. W3C Candidate Recommendation (08 May 2012) Link
A recently released paper has shown [1] how the HTML5 Battery API [2] can be used to accurately track devices. It would be nice to have a privacy option to disable access to the API.