On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Matt Domsch <matt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Personally, I don't think this is a big problem. Maybe it is. If it > were, the entire industry which uses cookies exactly for such tracking > (and even more so) would have huge security, privacy, and other > lawsuit concerns which I just don't hear about. Whatever we do will > have to run past Legal. I'm not giving legal, or even moral, advice here, but aiming to be as ethical as the internet advertising industry is a really, really low bar. :) I actually think collecting good usage data is really, really important, and open source projects and their legal counsels would be well-served to collaborate on defining best practices for this area. And I think if we sat down and thought it through, we could come up with best practices that would simultaneously let us gather a lot more data than we currently gather, and do as good (or possibly even better) by our users. So I'm not trying to discourage you; I think this is great. I'm just saying you don't do yourself any favors by saying 'well, the ad industry gets away with it, so it is OK for us' :) Luis _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
