On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I've discussed data-gathering casually with SFLC in the past, for what it is worth, though we never went anywhere with it. Mozilla went through a bit of soul-searching around the Test Pilot program; Mozilla has talked about the privacy guarantees in there extensively, but I'm not sure if the evaluation process was done publicly enough so as to provide a checklist or process which others could follow. Luis _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
