>
> In the end your history is scattered all over the place :P
>
> The logs are there and there is not common way to manage them. Having
> a central log like Zeitgeist will allow you to develop policies and
> blacklist for logging. Having history at a central location and having
> a central tool to disable logging completely or partially should be
> considered as an improvement of the user security.
>

The problem I see here is that it only improves the situation if it is
truly universal - if a central privacy control offers an option to "remove
my recent activity from the last 2 hours", it'd better clear my
firefox/chromium cookies as well(*). Otherwise users will either have to
know about implementation details, or will end up with a false sense of
control.

Also - if I want to hide my recent "activity" on
http://www.furnitureporn.com/, should that really affect funnycat1.png in
recent files or my chat history with @fiancé? I am not saying that a
central tool is bad per se, just that a feature like that should be
designed *before* pushing a technology that implies a certain design.


Regards,
Florian

(*) Maybe Canonical's downstream panel does that, I don't know - they are
in a much stronger position here than we are upstream
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