This isn't a dupe of Bug #1054741, which addresses the privacy policy update. This is about bad ui that establishes an expectation of the kind of privacy one has in a "home", but then sends search queries to the world. The UI needs to make clear delineation between those 2 contexts.
I've updated the description to make this differentiation clearer, and to propose a specific solution with a UI mockup. ** Description changed: - In it's current form (installed by default, enabled for home lens), the - shopping lens doesn't adequately disclose that every search query of the - home lens is sent to Amazon. Other comparable products do provide - disclosures upon installation when operations that appear "local" result - in data-disclosures to online services. Examples of this include VLC - and Windows Media Player notices on installation regarding metadata - download services. Shopping lens provides no such disclosure. + Previously the Home lens searched a "local" context on one's personal + computer. The shopping lens, and other lenses leverage online searches + to provide additional potentially relevant results, but in cases where + they integrate with the home lens they violate the expectation of + privacy established by the previous local search context. They also + violate the expectation of privacy that one associated with a "home". - Reasonable ways to resolve this issue, in my opinion, include: + This could be resolved by introducing the concept of a "world" lens in + addition to a home lens, and a switch to select which is the default + search performed in the Dash. The "world lens" would provide online + results, whereas the home lens would always perform local searches. - - Bug #1054776: Don't include results in the home lens. - AND - - Provide a prominent notice on first use of any lens that includes these results, with opt-out instructions. + A UI mockup of this feature is provided in "How to Fix" > "Step 2" of + https://perot.me/ubuntu-privacy-blunder-over-amazon-ads-continues -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1054782 Title: Introduce World Lens vs Home Lens To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1054782/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
