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MSC2197: update with privacy perspective
Includes recommendations for client developers. Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <olivier@librepush.net>
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@ -119,8 +119,23 @@ up sharing the client's search terms with a remote homeserver, which may not be
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operated by the same party or even trusted. For example, users' search terms
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could be logged.
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It is uncertain, to the author of this MSC, what implications this has with
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regards to legislation, such as GDPR.
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The privacy implications of this proposal are not overly major, as the data
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that's being shared is [\[1\]][1]:
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- only covered by GDPR if:
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- the search terms contain personal data, or
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- the user's homeserver IP address is uniquely identifying (because it's a
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single-person homeserver, perhaps)
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- likely to be *expected* to be shared with the remote homeserver
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[1]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2197#issuecomment-517641751
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For the sake of clarity, clients SHOULD display a warning that a remote search
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will take the user's data outside the jurisdiction of their own homeserver,
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before using the `server` parameter of the Client-Server API `/publicRooms`, as
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it can be assumed that this will lead to the server invoking the Federation
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API's `/publicRooms` – on the specified remote server – with the user's search
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terms.
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## Conclusion
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