Hi all, Mozilla has done a lot of work on telemetry, and we might be able to use some of their findings. On this page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection they break down the data they might possibly collect into four buckets - technical (such as crashes), user interaction, web activity, and sensitive (personal data).
This bit might be relevant to our discussion: "Categories 1 & 2 (Technical & Interaction data) Pre-Release & Release: Data may default on, provided the data is exclusively in these categories (it cannot be in any other category). In Release, an opt-out must be available for most types of Technical and Interaction data. " I think the entire page might be enlightening to this discussion. I believe our analysis of needs should be more fine-grained, and that some parts of what we need can be "default on" especially for pre-release testing. For releases, we can provide an opt-out. Other more sensitive data will need to be opt-in. I think it's a mistake to treat all the data we might want all in the same way. Valorie On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Christian Loosli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > thank you very much for this work, sounds great! > > Only point I have: maybe make sure that the opt-in / default settings are not > only mandatory for application developers, but also for packagers / > distributions. > > Some distributions have rather questionable views on privacy and by default > sent information to third parties, so I would feel much more safe if they > weren't allowed (in theory) to flick the switch in their package by default to > "on" either. > > Kind regards, > > Christian -- http://about.me/valoriez
