Telemetry Policy

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 17 August 2017 at 18:20, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org> wrote:

>
> On 17. Aug 2017, at 17:38, Mirko Boehm - KDE <mirko at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 17. Aug 2017, at 01:46, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Valorie,
> Even if opt-out for some data is legally and even morally fine, it does not
>
> align with the values we communicate to our users:
> Unlike Mozilla's Mission, our Vision mentions privacy explicitly, and we're
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> striving to make privacy our USP.
>
>
> We seem to assume a contradiction between telemetry and privacy. I believe
> this is a knee-jerk reaction. We can implement telemetry in a way that
> privacy is not violated. In fact, I would say that it follows from our
> vision that we should do this.
>
>
> The problem is: I expect users to have the same knee-jerk reaction. I
> don’t see us being able to explain to users that actually their privacy is
> perfectly safe before they freak out.
> Privacy-minded Free Software users have freaked out in the past over
> things which objectively speaking were not a huge deal.
> It’s emotion more than rational arguments
>
>
​It's hard to argue here or generalize to all app's communities. Krita
community for example is different than gcc community in these aspects.

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