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Does a website also have access to the accelerometer data (via browser)?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Acceleromet...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gyroscope

To use this sensor, the user must grant permission to the 'gyroscope' device sensor through the Permissions API.

On iOS, it used to be the case (https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-whats-the-user-doing), however with iOS 13 (https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/issues/57#issuecomm...) this has been addressed.

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