Telemetry Policy

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 24 August 2017 at 16:54, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

To meet obligations of the European law it's enough. Obvious but for
the record: if we're discussing how much we would care about privacy
-- this is delegating the responsibility to 3rdparty software. Which
may or may not have this implemented or (most often) *has tracking set
as opt-out*. Mozilla, Apple, Google for example have. MS tried to be
the good boy [1]. We and GNOME are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer_10_default_setting_controversy

> --
> Nicolás
> KDE Sysadmin Team



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