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Address Nick's comments.
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jyasskin committed Mar 9, 2020
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* Calendar entries.
* ...

A particular piece of information may have different sensitivity for different
users. Language preferences, for example, might typically seem innocent, but
also can be an indicator of belonging to a minority ethnicity. Precise location
information can be extremely sensitive (because it's identifying, because it
allows for in-person intrusions, because it can reveal detailed information
about a person's life) but it might also be public and not sensitive at all, or
it might be low-enough granularity that it is much less sensitive for many
users.

## Intrusive behavior ## {#hl-intrusion}

See [=intrusion=].
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## Sensitive-information ## {#model-sensitive-information}

Attackers can only get access to sensitive information if they can convince the
user to express their intent that the attacker get access to this information at
the time the attacker gets access to it. User agents vary in how they gather
this expression of intent.
Attackers should only be able to get access to sensitive information from a
[=user agent=] if they can convince the user to express their intent that the
attacker get access to this information at the time the attacker gets access to
it. User agents vary in how they gather this expression of intent.

That a user intends an attacker to get a piece of information at one time, for
example their location or their contact book, may be, but is not necessarily
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continued intent, but there is consensus that intent doesn't last for years
without interaction.

This threat model defines a kind of information as sensitive if we plan to
evolve the web platform to block access to it by default. Other information is
described as benign even if some users in some situations would find it
sensitive.

There is consensus that some kinds of information are sensitive:

* Location
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