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Title: Whoopsie sends bug reports automatically without consent Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hello, So, I just realized about an hour ago that whoopsie has been sending bug reports without my consent since May (2020-05-11 to be exact) from checking journalctl where I can see lines like these: Uploading /var/crash/[...] Sent; server replied with: No error Response code: 200 Reported OOPS ID [...] I checked the "Diagnostics" GUI in the gnome-control-center and it does have "Send error reports to Canonical" set to "Never"... I tried switching it to "Manual" and back to "Never" and that did have an effect in /etc/, namelely when going from "Never" to "Manual": renamed: rc2.d/K01whoopsie -> rc2.d/S01whoopsie renamed: rc3.d/K01whoopsie -> rc3.d/S01whoopsie renamed: rc4.d/K01whoopsie -> rc4.d/S01whoopsie renamed: rc5.d/K01whoopsie -> rc5.d/S01whoopsie new file: systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/whoopsie.service and the opposite effect is achieved when switching back to "Never". So far so good, I guess... My /etc/ does have a "whoopsie" file (/etc/whoopsie) which doesn't seem to be present in clean installations of Ubuntu and which has the following contents: [General] report_metrics=true Switching from "true" to "false" does seem to disable whoopsie, so that's nice I guess... but what is this file doing here in the first place? To clarify, this was originally an Ubuntu 18.04 system which I recently upgraded to 20.04 but the unsolicited error report uploads have been going on since well before the upgrade so that's not the issue. I don't remember touching anything on my system relating to apport or whoopsie and my shell history doesn't contain anything about whoopsie or apport so this situation seems to have occurred on its own (perhaps after an update?). This is a pretty serious breach of privacy (and of the GDPR) and others might also be unknowingly affected like I was, so the team in charge of this might want to push an update that for instance resets the /etc/whoopsie file if present (if that truly is the problem). While I'm at it I would like all the error reports sent from my computer to be deleted. Where can I ask for that? I haven't seen an option for that anywhere, apart from contacting dataprotect...@canonical.com. Best regards. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/+bug/1906078/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
