Telemetry Policy

[Nicolás Alvarez]

> El 24 ago 2017, a las 07:41, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> escribió:
> 
>> On 24 August 2017 at 11:10, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Curiously, there's a lot of "telemetry policy" news items popping up this
>> week, for instance:
>> 
>>        Mozilla ponders making telemetry opt-out, 'cos hardly anyone opted in
>> 
>> (that's on the Register) and there were others. So it looks like communication
>> -- what's the data for, why is it collected, and what can happen to it -- is
>> key here.
>> 
>> [ade]
> 
> Speaking of that please let me play devil's advocate. In Europe,
> especially Poland all web sites/web apps that collect cookies must
> obtain permission to do that from the user. Interestingly there are
> usually OK buttons only so the message is only an information.
> Sometimes there is "Don't agree" button which is equal to close the
> site. So telemetry-like behavior even lacks opt-out.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I can imagine we would make our pages work without cookies and add
> opt-in buttons to each main site.
> 
> Now KDE context since there's visible call to make privacy our pillar topic:
> 1. Does www.kde.org for example use cookies?

Yes, and we show the comply-with-Europe-law banner letting the user know about those cookies. We also follow the browser Do Not Track setting and we don't collect statistics if that is set.

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Nicolás
KDE Sysadmin Team