Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium
As others have suggested you should file a bug report. The Chromium maintainers do appear to take privacy seriously and have made several privacy-oriented changes already (see e.g. this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783999) If you need to find out how to file a bug, please see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150615092341.gb21...@chew.redmars.org
Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:47:06PM +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. I do agree that this should be filed as a bug. Please come back here if you need any assistance (personally, I don't use chromium, but I'd be glad to help in any way). - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlV+d+AACgkQBcgs9XrR2kadJwCfXHHzELvKh6ScfFXQlKMMkYiT pUAAn331qOBFwuvAtduUO+uj+D72fRXr =GkFu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150615065944.ga2...@tuxteam.de
social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium
Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking features of chromium like gcm which connects to google servers several times per hour. Anyway, there should be a mandatory warning that this package default configuration tracks you in many ways, and an even stronger warning if you can't configure it to not track you. For example, that's what the f-droid project mandates for its free software packages. Regards.
Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium
Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. The social contract isn't easy to change, but it isn't normally necessary to do so. I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking features of chromium like gcm which connects to google servers several times per hour. Anyway, there should be a mandatory warning that this package default configuration tracks you in many ways, and an even stronger warning if you can't configure it to not track you. That would be a good idea, provided that there weren't so many privacy problems that the average user would just get annoyed with all of the warnings. Another problem would be defining For what it's worth, Debian has taken some measures to protect privacy already. If you look at the below website and search for privacy-breach, then you can see the list of privacy tags: https://lintian.debian.org/tags-all.html Chromium doesn't appear to have been caught by lintian. It can't hurt to file a bug report requesting a privacy notice, though. pgp9UtXi_9UE7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 17:47 +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: debian-user is probably not the right place for this. The linux-elitists list is very involved with these issues, and the list archives are open to public examination: http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists -- These are not the droids you are looking for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/nycvar.QRO.7.75.3.1506141843260.4342@arjgebyy.ybpnyqbznva
Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium
On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 17:47 +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking features of chromium like gcm which connects to google servers several times per hour. Anyway, there should be a mandatory warning that this package default configuration tracks you in many ways, and an even stronger warning if you can't configure it to not track you. For example, that's what the f-droid project mandates for its free software packages. Hi, debian-user is probably not the right place for this. File a bug report against the chromium package. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
