On 17 August 2017 at 18:20, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 17. Aug 2017, at 17:38, Mirko Boehm - KDE <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 17. Aug 2017, at 01:46, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]> > 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 > > It's hard to argue here or generalize to all app's communities. Krita community for example is different than gcc community in these aspects. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
