On 7/12/23 16:34, Jeremy Newton wrote:
I know that I would personally always opt out on principle, and would vote for opt-in or dropping the proposal. I am under the impression that most Fedora users are in the same boat as me.
For the record, my personal opinion is that an opt-out is an acceptable
option. I believe that Fedora has been hampered in the past by lack of
reliable usage stats: we had difficult discussions about support for
i686/python2/Qt3/etc where we just didn't know where the Fedora users
were. Therefore, I personally think it is a good idea to allow
collecting such stats, because I trust Fedora organization to keep such
information to itself.
First of all, I just don't see that large data brokers would be
interested in Python3 adoption data, and secondly I hope that Fedora
organization would have the integrity (and the whistleblowers:) to
protect that info even if there was a temptation to let it out.
Regarding the opt-in vs opt-out, someone made a claim that opt-out is
not compliant with GDPR, which doesn't sound right. Every GDPR widget I
have seen so far essentially asks if I agree with data collection, and
offers me an opportunity to opt out of everything but essential cookies,
which seems equivalent to the 'opt-out' mechanism that Michael proposes.
One missing piece might be for Fedora organization to commit to a policy
of protecting such data collections, by publishing a legally sound
declaration about its intentions and practices. Currently, we have this
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/privacy/
which in my 'not-a-lawyer' view seems to be targeted to the web
collection and may be US-centric, so maybe it could use some legal
wordsmithing.
Again, all this is my personal opinion.
p
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