Element Capture #954
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privacy-tracker
Group bringing to attention of Privacy, or tracked by the Privacy Group but not needing response.
Progress: in progress
Topic: powerful APIs
APIs that reach into your life.
Hej TAG!
I'm requesting a TAG review of Element Capture.
A combination of pre-existing mechanisms (getDisplayMedia, Region Capture) already allows Web applications to capture a portion of the current tab as video MediaStreamTrack, robustly cropping away irrelevant pixels. Such videos can than be transmitted remotely; removing pixels not intended for sharing helps the sharing user's privacy, and prevents distraction by the receiving users. It also helps conserve compute and network resources.
Our new API, Element Capture, takes this a step further, allowing Web applications to remove unwanted occlusions. For example, if a private message notification appears over the shared region, it is possible to avoid capturing that message, which also avoids transmitting it remotely, and therefore helps uphold privacy guarantees implicitly made to the user, who had only intended to share the target-region, and not whatever happened to be drawn over it.
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You should also know that...
Strong positive Web developer feedback for this feature was expressed on screen-share/element-capture#3 and during Screen Capture CG meetings.
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