Telemetry Policy

[Christian Loosli]

Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2017, 00:33:02 CEST schrieb Valorie Zimmerman:

> I think the entire page might be enlightening to this discussion. I
> believe our analysis of needs should be more fine-grained, and that
> some parts of what we need can be "default on" especially for
> pre-release testing. For releases, we can provide an opt-out.

I'm afraid that at the very moment KDE starts transmitting my data, no matter 
what data, as opt-out, I'll opt out of supporting and using KDE products, and 
I assume a lot of people will do the same. 

This is, in my opinion, the exact opposites of our very principles and 
manifesto, and I would not jeapardize our reputation just to gather some data, 
to be honest. It would create reputational damage that is hard to fix  (people 
still remember the Unity amazon thing)

I do admit that I have very strong views when it comes to privacy and data 
usage though. 

> Other more sensitive data will need to be opt-in. I think it's a
> mistake to treat all the data we might want all in the same way.
> 
> Valorie

Kind regards, 

Christian
 

> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Christian Loosli
> 
> <christian.loosli at fuchsnet.ch> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > thank you very much for this work, sounds great!
> > 
> > Only point I have: maybe make sure that the opt-in / default settings are
> > not only mandatory for application developers, but also for packagers /
> > distributions.
> > 
> > Some distributions have rather questionable views on privacy and by
> > default
> > sent information to third parties, so I would feel much more safe if they
> > weren't allowed (in theory) to flick the switch in their package by
> > default to "on" either.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Christian