Telemetry questions

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 9:53 PM Christophe Giboudeaux <christophe at krop.fr>
wrote:

> On Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:56:35 CET Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > 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)
> >
>
> > > 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.
> >
>
> Thanks for checking.
>
> Privacy is a sensitive subject and we can't just tell our users to trust
> KDE.
>
> Considering the multiple violation of the telemetry policy, we will make
> sure
> KUserFeedback support is disabled in openSUSE packages for the following
> applications:
>
> - akregator
> - discover
> - kaddressbook
> - kmail
> - korganizer
> - pim-data-exporter
> - pim-sieve-editor
> - plasma (including plasmashell, systemsettings)
> - ruqola
>
> and more generally all applications that do not comply with the KDE
> policies
> (as of today, only kate followed the rules and dolphin is under review).
>
> As soon as compliance with the KDE telemetry policy is restored, we will
> consider adding the KUserFeedback build dependency again for those
> applications.
>

Given that the policy has been violated by those applications, I'm also
inclined to destroy all of the information already gathered to date for
those and to disable the acceptance of information for them.

More concerningly, we require developers to certify that they've read the
policies prior to being given access to the information we collect (which
also includes the ability to provision new applications in the system) - so
we may need to have a conversation regarding this with those developers.


>
> Christophe
>
>
>
>
Thanks,
Ben
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