On 1/31/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Ok.
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.
So what you're saying is that the hardware profiler should be opt in only?
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.
Ok
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.
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