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      type="topic"
      id="geolocation-privacy">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="geolocation#geoloc"/>
    <desc>
      What information are sent and to who.
    </desc>
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    </revision>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
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    <copyright>
      <year>2009</year>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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  </info>

  <title>Geolocation Privacy</title>

  <section id="info-sent">
  <title>What information is sent</title>
  <p>
    What is possible to send is: your country, region, locality, area, street, building,
    floor, room, and postal code, longitude, latitude and altitude, speed and bearing.
  </p>
  <p>
    The accuracy and the quantity of information about your geographical position are based
    on the software or on the infrastructure used to discover your position.
  </p>
  <p>
    Different kind of networks may have different accuracy settings, and may send
    different information. The use of external devices such as GPS or mobile phone
    will increase the accuracy of the information sent.
  </p>
  <p>
    When the privacy mode is enabled, nothing more precise than your city will be
    sent, even if you are using an external device.
  </p>
  </section>
  
  <section id="see-info">
  <title>Who can see the information sent</title>
  <p>
    Only your contacts can see your geographical position.
  </p>
  </section>
  
  <section id="privacy-mode">
  <title>What is the privacy mode</title>
  <p>
    The privacy mode, enabled by default, is a reduced accuracy mode that will
    decrease the accuracy of the geographical position sent to your contacts.
  </p>
  </section>
  
  <section id="privacy-overview">
  <title>Privacy overview</title>
  <p>
    Overview of the various geolocation privacy settings in <app>Empathy</app>.
  </p>
  <list>
    <item>
      <p>
        Geolocation is not enabled by default.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Privacy mode is enabled by default.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Privacy mode prevails even when using external and more precise devices.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Only your contacts can see your position.
      </p>
    </item>
  </list>
  </section>

</page>
