On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Aoife Moloney wrote: > Important process note: we are experimenting with using Fedora > Discussion as part of the Changes process. Change announcements (like > the one you are reading right now) will still be sent to the > devel-announce mailing list, but the conversation about each change > will take place on Fedora Discussion at > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation-system-wide/85320 Why? This was discussed a while back and the number problems with discourse were covered, and to my knowledge none of them have been fixed. > == Summary == > > The Red Hat Display Systems Team (which develops the desktop) proposes > to enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation > usage metrics. > > Fedora is an open source community project, and nobody is interested > in violating user privacy. We do not want to collect data about > individual users. We want to collect only aggregate usage metrics that > are actually needed to achieve specific Fedora improvement objectives, > and no more. We understand that if we violate our users' trust, then > we won't have many users left, so if metrics collection is approved, > we will need to be very careful to roll this out in a way that > respects our users at all times. (For example, we should not collect > users' search queries, because that would be creepy.) This also keeps coming up and the answer is again, no! There's no such thing as anonymous data collection, people don't want it, it must not be enabled by default (making it useless to you), it's probably illegal in the Europe, so stop asking for it. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
