On Donnerstag, 14. April 2016 15:26:10 CEST Mirko Boehm - KDE wrote: > Hi! > > > On 14 Apr 2016, at 15:16, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > A while ago Albert gave a talk at Akademy about collecting some data > > on our users. This got me thinking and with Neon I wanted to see how > > many installs we had. Our package install software will check for new > > versions being available and I could count the IPs of this check but > > that's very unreliable. Canonical counts IPs from the NTP ping at > > boot up but of course it's only useful at best as a relative metric of > > numbers of installs not absolute numbers. So I added a machine-id to > > the URL it checks which is the unique value set at install time by > > systemd (/etc/machine-id) so now it has a good idea of being able to > > count the number of installs. > > > > But KDE cares about privacy and it's in our Vision and I don't want to > > be accused of violating that. But currently I can't see how this can > > violate users privacy any more than an IP address can so I'm curious > > to hear what arguments might come up against this. > > I believe that as long as we are transparent about it, this should be fine. > Maybe, just maybe, there could be a way to turn it of for very > privacy-sensitive users.
Any potentially privacy-sensitive information transfer should be opt-in, not opt-out. I'd assume that the vast majority of users will allow it (given that it's not personally identifiable and they trust their distro), but opt-in puts you on the safe side. _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
