On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 02:45:31PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. > I'd be happy to help with that - should Council look at this first or should this go straight to either FESCo or FPC? Best regards, -- _o) Michel Lind _( ) identities: https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2
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