Regarding KDE Privacy policy

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Wed Feb 26 15:01:32 GMT 2020


On 2/26/20 2:32 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> As we're changing how we use the data (to now include a distribution
> component) we would need to invalidate all existing consents given by
> users (for which no mechanism exists for us to do so, as we never
> expected to need to change the policy) and I think we would have to
> discard all the data we have already collected as well.
> 
> Unfortunately, as the system includes no mechanism for the server to
> communicate which revision of the privacy policy the user agreed to,
> we would also have to come up with a way of blocking all old clients
> from communicating with the system altogether (as we have no way of
> telling if it is an old consent the software is relying on or a new
> one) so you'd only start getting data in the system once users had
> gone through a full update cycle.

That seems like an oversight we should correct regardless of whether or 
not we release any data. It is not likely that the terms will *never* 
change.

Nate



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