Hi,
Privacy policy makes sense for software you quote, eithr because they
are closd-code, or because thy are in the cloud and users send data to
servers, so it is important to know what do this data once sent.
Debian provides free software and does not support non-free one even if
they exist in the Debian infra. They provide tools to be installed on
your computer. So when you install a program in Debian, you can check
the code, but more important, you dont send data to an external source.
Then I dont think Debian needs a privacy policy. Neither Debian, nor the
packages themselves collect the user data. And it would be a problem to
do this, from the socail contract.
I think we can consider having a thought about it if some program
collects data. For a non free program, this should be in its licene or
on th websie of its provider.
Regards
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 08/06/2019 à 20:02, npdflr a écrit :
Hello,
How can one check the privacy policy for the packages/softwares (which
can be free or non-free) installed in Debian?
If one is downloading and installing a package from a website then
he/she can check the privacy policy link on that website.
Example:
-- Skype (https://www.skype.com/en/get-skype/) which has privacy
policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement
-- Go programming language (https://golang.org/) which has privacy
policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
But if one is downloading a package (which may also install dependency
packages) via terminal or synaptic package manager then how can one
check the privacy policy of that package?
Thank you.