The problem isn't solved. I understood it like this: Unity 8 will drop the Home Scope and therefore include a Scopes Scope. When pressing the meta key and typing something into the Dash in Unity 8 the input will be >>send<< to Canonical and then the Canonical server will return a list of Scopes the user might want to search further. In the end all input will still be send through the internet to Canonical. The only thing that would change is, that not all input would be send to e.g. Amazon... but still, the input leaves your computer what is IMHO a bad thing.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to libunity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073114 Title: Online Smart Scopes Do Not Respect User Privacy Status in “libunity” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “unity-lens-shopping” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “libunity” source package in Quantal: Won't Fix Status in “unity-lens-shopping” source package in Quantal: Won't Fix Status in “libunity” source package in Raring: Won't Fix Status in “unity-lens-shopping” source package in Raring: Won't Fix Bug description: See this from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a well respected "international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization" (as described on Wikipedia): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads- and-data-leaks Obviously, despite some improvements that have came late in the 12.10 development cycle, there are still serious privacy concerns with the unity shopping lens. To be more precise, here are the main problems to be fixed according to EFF: - Disable "Include online search results" by default. - Explain in detail what Canonical does with search queries and IP addresses, how long it stores them, and in what circumstances it gives them to third parties. - Make the Search Results tab of the Privacy settings let users toggle on and off specific online search results, as some users might want Amazon products in their search results, but never anything from Facebook. Here is another related bug: #1055952 Direct data leaking to Amazon: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens- shopping/+bug/1055952 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: unity-lens-shopping 6.8.0-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 3.5.6-030506-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 30 06:35:38 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-02-12 (260 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: unity-lens-shopping UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-28 (31 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libunity/+bug/1073114/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
