So late in the release cycle? Without any broader involvement of and verification by the Eclipse community? Just an announcement after Neon RC3 (or after Platform RC4)? Not as an opt-in like in AERI? Without any further notice to the user at all? WITHOUT any working opt-out mechanism? Giving the user the theoretical chance to edit a file and set a property to '0' cannot be called a valid opt-out option. And all that from an Open Source organisation?
I believe our users downloading Eclipse deserve more respect. Silently introducing even more user tracking is nothing that I want to be identified with. Markus On 4 June 2016 at 10:31, Ed Willink <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > This hardly seems last minute at all. My > ${user.home}/.eclipse/eclipse.uuid has a > > #Tue May 03 08:41:32 BST 2016 > > timestamp indicating that it was almost certainly created by M7. Why the > one month delay in notifying us? > Why no start up dialog in M7 onwards informing us that we are being > default opted in? > > Regards > > Ed Willink > On 04/06/2016 06:50, Christian Campo wrote: > > hi > > is that a last minute idea that came up recently or why is it only > revealed now that is pretty much too late for any change ? > > Gruß > > Christian > > Am 03.06.2016 um 17:13 schrieb Ian Skerrett < <[email protected]> > [email protected]>: > > All, > > I wanted to make everyone aware that a UUID has been added to the Eclipse > Platform [1] and is available in the current Neon RC. This was done at the > request of the Eclipse Foundation. > > > > The UUID is automatically generated and stored in the > ${user.home}/.eclipse/eclipse.uuid file. The UUID does not contain any > personally identifiable information. If a user do not want to have this > property set they are instructed to set eclipse.uuid=0. Information about > the UUID has been included in the Eclipse Platform N&N [2]. > > The UUID will be automatically added to the user-agent of http requests to > *.eclipse.org servers. For Neon, the projects that make these types of > requests include p2 [1], MPC [3] and AERI [4]. I would expect other > projects will add a uuid in the future. > > > > The immediate questions for many people are 1) why are we doing this, and > 2) what about the privacy concerns. Let me attempt to answer both of these > questions. > > Why are we doing this? > > The Eclipse Foundation has started an program to better understand our > user community. We are using a log file analysis service, Splunk, to > analyze many of our log files to get a better idea of how people are using > Eclipse. For instance, how many people actively use Eclipse, what version > of Java is the most popular with the Eclipse user community, what version > of Eclipse Platform is being used or what operating system is being used? > In the past, this type of information was typically a ‘best guess’. We > believe can do better by having the actual data of our user community. The > UUID will allow us to get a more accurate answer to many of these questions. > > What about the privacy concerns? > > The UUID is anonymous and does not contain personably identifiable > information. We only intend to use and analyze the UUID at an aggregate > level. A user is able to opt-out of sending a UUID by setting > eclipse.uuid=0. The Eclipse Foundation has a published Privacy Policy [5] > that details our specific practices. > > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I appreciate > this might be a sensitive topic but I do believe it is the right thing to > do for the Eclipse community. > > Regards > > Ian > > > > [1] <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=490112> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=490112 > > [2] <https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.6/platform.php> > https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.6/platform.php > > [2] <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492916> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492916 > > [3] <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492917> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492917 > > [4] <https://eclipse.org/legal/privacy.php> > https://eclipse.org/legal/privacy.php > > > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > compeople AG > Untermainanlage 8 > 60329 Frankfurt/Main > fon: +49 (0) 69 / 27 22 18 0 > fax: +49 (0) 69 / 27 22 18 22 > web: www.compeople.de > > Vorstand: Jürgen Wiesmaier > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Christian Glanz > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt/Main > Handelsregister Frankfurt HRB 56759 > USt-IdNr. DE207665352 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, > visithttps://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >
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