Package: geoclue-2.0
Version: 2.5.6-1
Severity: serious

The geoclue package collects SSIDs in the neighborhood and sends them to
Mozilla location services.

The SSID of an adhoc network (which for instance is set up for tethering
via a mobile phone) is personally identifiable information. Sending this
information about a third person without his or her explicit consent to
another party especially one outside of the European Union is in breach
of the German law Datenschutz-Grundverordnung which is the German
implementation of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The easiest remedy would be to remove the package from the repository
until it is fixed upstream to be compliant.

Cf. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=924516

src/gclue-config.c:219:
#define DEFAULT_WIFI_URL
"https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key="; MOZILLA_API_KEY
#define DEFAULT_WIFI_SUBMIT_URL
"https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/submit?key="; MOZILLA_API_KEY

Best regards

Heinrich Schuchardt

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