Telemetry questions

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 5:30 AM Christophe Giboudeaux <christophe at krop.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,


> Our users have read a couple reddit threads or worse, a website used to
> spread
> <censored> stuff about kuserfeedback.
>
> Pointing them to the telemetry policy will probably not be reassuring as I
> also can't find answers to a couple questions:
>
> - The telemetry policy says: « applications honor system-wide telemetry
> settings where they exist (global "kill switch") »
>
> Is it documented? How can a system administrator prevent users from
> turning
> telemetry on?
>

Outside of this, for those who prefer DNS based solutions to disabling
Telemetry functionality, all submissions are sent to a single host at "
telemetry.kde.org" (which should be simple enough to add to /etc/hosts or
equivalent)


>
> - The policy also says « KDE only releases products capable of acquiring
> telemetry data if compliance with these rules has been established by a
> public
> review on [kde-core-devel|kde-community]@kde.org from at least two
> reviewers.
> »
>
> My archives may be incomplete but I can't find the reviews for plasma,
> KMail,
> akregator, SieveEditor, kaddressbook, korganizer and ruqola which are
> listed
> on https://community.kde.org/Telemetry_Use


I have no record of these applications being reviewed either.


>
>
> Where are these?
>
> Thanks.
> Christophe
>
>
Cheers,
Ben
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