On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 17:11 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> The smolt data looked quite nice to me. Good stuff to know. > > Ralf> Pardon, but you'd better never mention the word "security" in a Fedora > Ralf> context again ;) > > Yeah. It's kind of hard to want to get involved again. > > I understand you're more worried about people somehow getting your > hardware profile than I am. That's even understandable. What I don't > understand is why clicking "No" is not enough. It's probably a cultural difference. In Europe, esp. in Germany, "data collectionitis of certain enterprises" and "data privacy" are _VERY_ _HOT_ political topics. This manifests at various places, e.g. Germany having very restrictive laws on "data privacy" and the public/press/media's attitude being very hostile against anybody "collecting data". Also, probably unlike in many other parts of the world people around here are conscious about "data privacy" and often have a negative attitude against institutions collecting data. Fact is, what you seem to take for granted, isn't in Germany. The legal details are complicated, it would require to be a laywer to elaborate, but German's laws mandate "explicit opt-in" and mandate explicit regulations on many other details (e.g. timed deletion of data) in many situations. Though this isn't 100% legally mandated, this has lead to many people in Germany to consider "opt-in" as a matter of fairness and consider enterprises choosing "opt-out" to be playing foul and to be jerks. I had mentioned this aspect in a very early mail of this thread, but ... this had been pushed aside. IMO, you and Fedora are vastly underestimating the situation. You understand you are playing with a loaded gun here and are better off taking concerns about it seriously. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
