Telemetry Policy

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Hi all, Mozilla has done a lot of work on telemetry, and we might be
able to use some of their findings. On this page:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection they break down the
data they might possibly collect into four buckets - technical (such
as crashes), user interaction, web activity, and sensitive (personal
data).

This bit might be relevant to our discussion: "Categories 1 & 2
(Technical & Interaction data)
Pre-Release & Release: Data may default on, provided the data is
exclusively in these categories (it cannot be in any other category).
In Release, an opt-out must be available for most types of Technical
and Interaction data. "

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.

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


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



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