Privacy-conscious policy for Fedora Linux [was Re: F42 Change Proposal: Opt-In Metrics for Fedora Workstation (system-wide)]

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On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 04:14:03AM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> That said, it is not sufficient to reject adding Fedora downstream spyware. 
> Fedora also needs a policy that upstream "telemetry" spyware is not allowed 
> and needs to be disabled at compile time or patched out. We have several 
> packaged applications wanting to "phone home" for this kind of "anonymized 
> usage statistics". This should not be allowed in a privacy-concious 
> distribution.

I'm not convinced that that's the exact policy we want, but I do agree that
we should have a stated policy. There was some work on a "privacy policy for
the OS" a while ago, but that basically ran aground in the choppy waters of
legal statements -- and I think a similar attempt would run into the same
problems. But, we could have a policy that _isn't_ a legal statement;
basically a packaging guideline.


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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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