On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:03:21PM -0800, Luis Villa wrote: > 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' :) Great point, Luis. Matt and I took as an action item getting with our legal counsel, and I think it would be wonderful to approach that as a collaboration the way you suggest here. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
