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Bug 726234 - add software usage settings
add software usage settings
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Privacy
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Rui Matos
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-03-13 11:51 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2021-06-09 16:11 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.11/3.12



Description Allan Day 2014-03-13 11:51:50 UTC
At some point over the 3.11 cycle, the privacy panel grew an option to control when software usage data is shared with the distributor.

The privacy policy provided is currently insufficient:

 * It isn't translatable.
 * It's desplayed in the browser.
 * It isn't clear what data is shared or what the implications are for the user.
 * It isn't clear who is providing the privacy policy.
 * To my knowledge, it hasn't been given the OK by legal.

As such, I think we should remove this option from the settings, and ensure that software usage data aren't sent anywhere.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2014-03-13 11:53:18 UTC
I'll do this later today.
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2014-03-13 14:28:13 UTC
commit e2c0fd8f8abf3f8a7fdcd20375a5d3ea76bfa69b
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 13 14:26:47 2014 +0000

    privacy: Disable the software usage reporting due to various bugs
    
    Resolves: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726234

After 3.12 I'll start working on the bullet points.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2014-03-14 23:07:19 UTC
Lets turn this bug around, then
Comment 4 André Klapper 2021-06-09 16:11:45 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
  https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
and create a new bug report at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.