On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:57 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:42 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > >> Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >>> It is inappropriate if it is not known by the user. If it is a > >>> voluntary agreement between the user and the Fedora Group that the > >>> user knows what is tracked, how the data is anonymized, how the data > >>> is being used, and how it can be turned off then it is something that > >>> people can trust and not in my view of the world inappropriate. > >> Just curious. Do you feel that we ship without the big cookie warning > >> turned on by default in firefox as an example of something that's > >> inappropriate? > >> > > > > If we're using that being disabled to allow us to gather more tracking > > information then yes. We're CHOOSING to disable items that would let the > > user know we're tracking them. > > So that default applies to google, redhat.com and lots of other sites. > It's part of how the web works today. > > And once again, tracking implies some kind of nefarious end or big > brother type thing. Once again, I'm just interested in if you're using > it, not what you're doing with it or who you are. > I'm not accusing you or even red hat of being the big brothers. There are plenty of them in the world. And recording what folks in various developing nations is practically a pass-time for a good portion of our government. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
