> On 17. Aug 2017, at 17:38, Mirko Boehm - KDE <mi...@kde.org> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 17. Aug 2017, at 01:46, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org >> <mailto:thomas.pfeif...@kde.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi Valorie, >> Even if opt-out for some data is legally and even morally fine, it does not >> align with the values we communicate to our users: >> Unlike Mozilla's Mission, our Vision mentions privacy explicitly, and we're >> striving to make privacy our USP. > > We seem to assume a contradiction between telemetry and privacy. I believe > this is a knee-jerk reaction. We can implement telemetry in a way that > privacy is not violated. In fact, I would say that it follows from our vision > that we should do this. >
The problem is: I expect users to have the same knee-jerk reaction. I don’t see us being able to explain to users that actually their privacy is perfectly safe before they freak out. Privacy-minded Free Software users have freaked out in the past over things which objectively speaking were not a huge deal. It’s emotion more than rational arguments
