Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rowland Lenton wrote on 12/10/11 21:08: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:29 -0400, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com ... (Drifting offtopic, would it make sense for the Music Store to be part of Software Center?) No. Ubuntu Software Center doesn't

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread David Barth
Le 11/10/2011 22:04, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 11/10/11 12:43: ... I had difficulties believing this to be true, so I tested it. I searched for an artist of which I have no records, and sure enough, the music lense

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:29 -0400, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Alternatively, could the entire online store library be cached to user's computers? This should speed up search and there shouldn't be a privacy concern. It could be similar to what app-install-data does. But how much

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 12. okt. 2011 19:52, skrev David Barth: I don't know either. But I suspect that would take some previous space on the CD and then local install. Not to mention the need for very frequent updates. And an out-of-date database would be even worse, ie not returning any of the new music hits.

Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-11 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
I was a little bit surprised to read that the Music Lense will actually send your searches to an online database by default and without asking any permission beforehand. In earlier versions of Ubuntu, things like popcon have not been activated by default and you've always been confident that

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-11 Thread Didier Roche
Le 11/10/2011 13:43, Jo-Erlend Schinstad a écrit : I was a little bit surprised to read that the Music Lense will actually send your searches to an online database by default and without asking any permission beforehand. In earlier versions of Ubuntu, things like popcon have not been activated

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 11/10/11 12:43: ... I had difficulties believing this to be true, so I tested it. I searched for an artist of which I have no records, and sure enough, the music lense told me I could purchase it. I then