On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 20:52 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 12/18/2017 08:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > I don't remember being actively asked about such data collection, and > > I've recently installed on a clean system, nightly on Fedora, and then > > final releases of 57 on Windows and macOS. Does anyone have a screen > > shot or description of what this "ask" looks like, and when it > > appears? > > It keeps changing. Currently, it's a pop-under tab shown once if you > open a new profile, using this URL: > > <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/> So I just booted Firefox 27 Workstation live and opened Firefox. Indeed, a pop-under tab appears with this URL (so you can close it without even seeing it). The relevant text reads: "Firefox by default shares data to: Improve performance and stability for users everywhere Interaction data: Firefox sends data about your interactions with Firefox to us (such as number of open tabs and windows; number of webpages visited; number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons; and session length) and Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners (such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals). Technical data: Firefox sends data about your Firefox version and language; device operating system and hardware configuration; memory, basic information about crashes and errors; outcome of automated processes like updates, safebrowsing, and activation to us. When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs." I would suggest that nothing in this text reasonably covers "shield studies"; it was clearly written to cover old-school telemetry, not this later and more extensive capability to install custom-written add- ons to perform additional data collection. Yet the "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" checkbox is checked by default. And in any case, a tie-in with a television-show related game is clearly neither telemetry nor some kind of user interaction study. Yet to me, Mozilla's response does not seem to convey understanding of this at all. It basically just says "oh don't worry it didn't do anything by default", which is sort of grandly missing the point. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
