F40 Change Request: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)
discussion.fedoraproject.orgThis is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux. This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. Break-Out Topics! Because this a big conversation, we have identified several important themes and created separate break-out conversations for those. For these topics in particular, please follow the appropr...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/782760
the proposal is from a red-hat team member and is proposing addition of “privacy-respecting” telemetry. here’s the link to the hyperkitty thread
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Looks like a broken windows theory example. Reminds me of the situation with the CentOS sources.
I think this is successive stories and probing the ground.
It should be opt-in if they want to maintain their reputation while introducing telemetry.
Why even collect telemetry? Almost 20 years of Fedora and now they add telemetry? IBM really turns companies they own to crap.
It should be opt-in.