Le lundi 17 mars 2008 à 20:32 +0100, schoappied a écrit : > Damien, > > As a 'user' of a internetservice, like internet chat or phone, I want to > know which information will be gathered and stored by the service. If > they use information, what for and if there giving or selling > information to third party's. Also I like to know how they protect there > users against violations of privacy. > > Do you store for example the chat or call sessions? Do you store who > call who and when? And if so, how can we as users delete 'history' or > change the setting so that that sort of information will not be stored. > > It is not a specific distrust of Ekiga, but in my opinion every internet > service should be protecting there users for misuse or privacy > violations and they should be open about there privacy rules. I think it > would be good if Ekiga can ensure there users that there privacy will > not be violated by the service and that Ekiga shall do there best to > protect there users against it. A sort of statement. > > As a user I can read that statement/ policy and can decide whether or > not I will use that service. > > Here are some examples: > > http://www.skype.com/legal/privacy/general/ > http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx > http://www.voipbuster.com/en/privacy.html > http://www.digium.com/en/company/view-policy.php?id=Privacy-Policy > > I think your service and software will be more 'open' if you're open, > honest and clear about this, for every (potential) user.
We only store user names and e-mail addresses and are not a commercial company, so perhaps it does not really make sense (as reported by Cam Ellison). However, it can not harm if we add such a notice somewhere. It is on the TODO : http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Ekiga.net_VoIP_service_subscription#What_about_privacy_and_VoIP_services_.3F -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ NOVACOM : http://www.novacom.be/ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list