Regarding KDE Privacy policy

Christoph Cullmann christoph at cullmann.io
Tue Feb 25 18:36:20 GMT 2020


On 2020-02-25 19:22, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dimarts, 25 de febrer de 2020, a les 18:47:16 CET, Nate Graham va 
> escriure:
>> I find myself in agreement.
>> 
>> I have access to the kuserfeedback data and to be honest I'm rather
>> dissatisfied with its actionability. There's nothing detailed like "x
>> percentage of users change the default wallpaper" or "y percentage of
>> users switch to double-click" that we could actually use to inform our
>> UI design--let alone anything that could be used to personally 
>> identify
>> anyone. The actual data set is so tame and uninteresting that I agree
>> that we could change our policy and release the stats just to show
>> everyone that we have nothing to hide.
> 
> You can log anything you want, if you think knowing users that have
> non default wallpapers or that switch to double click, log that.

That is totally correct, guess the Plasma developers did just start with 
the
basics (like Kate, too).

But given we praise our self that the data we collect is properly 
anonymized
and doesn't contain any private stuff, having it available for the 
public
would make this even more transparent.

Greetings
Christoph

-- 
Ignorance is bliss...
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