> On 21 Oct 2016, at 15:28, Gunnar Wagenknecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Marcel, > >> On 21 Oct 2016, at 12:24, Marcel Bruch <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> I’m looking for your input on the second part: whether sending the >> fingerprint of an error report to eclipse.org <http://eclipse.org/> before >> the user explicitly agrees to send the error itself is considered a privacy >> issue. My personal take is that the fingerprint itself does not contain any >> reasonable private information. However, under some conditions committers >> may be able to “see” which errors a user hits on his machine even if he does >> not send the error report ( IFF we'd send the reporter id along with the >> fingerprint or would track the reporter’s IP address - which we do not do!). > > I find the last sentence confusing. :) > > Can you clarify: > - what is a reporter id?
A standard UUID. We generate it once per user-home. We use that information to allow searches like “Give me all error reports ±5 minutes around this error report” or to collect how many users actually hit a problem (to assess its severity) etc. > - how is it related to the proposal, i.e. checking for known error > information as fingerprints? I used this to illustrate when (I think) sending a fingerprint may reveal some information about the user. > - why is it necessary for the proposal? This is not required. It was more an example to illustrate when sending a fingerprint may reveal something about the reporter. The question is, whether this pair <reporter-id, error-fingerprint> is considered sensitive already. > - is the reporter id an "opt-in”? Yes and no. You opt in to send error reports w/ a uuid when you enable AERI (announced and implemented so from day one). FWIW, there is a change in progress that allows users to generate a fresh UUID on every eclipse startup. Does that answer all your questions? > > Thanks! > > -Gunnar > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev -- Codetrails GmbH The knowledge transfer company Robert-Bosch-Str. 7, 64293 Darmstadt Phone: +49-6151-276-7092 Mobile: +49-179-131-7721 http://www.codetrails.com/ Managing Director: Dr. Marcel Bruch Handelsregister: Darmstadt HRB 91940
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