On 24 August 2017 at 16:54, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> El 24 ago 2017, a las 07:41, Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@kde.org> escribió: >> >>> On 24 August 2017 at 11:10, Adriaan de Groot <gr...@kde.org> wrote: >>> >>> Curiously, there's a lot of "telemetry policy" news items popping up this >>> week, for instance: >>> >>> Mozilla ponders making telemetry opt-out, 'cos hardly anyone opted in >>> >>> (that's on the Register) and there were others. So it looks like >>> communication >>> -- what's the data for, why is it collected, and what can happen to it -- is >>> key here. >>> >>> [ade] >> >> Speaking of that please let me play devil's advocate. In Europe, >> especially Poland all web sites/web apps that collect cookies must >> obtain permission to do that from the user. Interestingly there are >> usually OK buttons only so the message is only an information. >> Sometimes there is "Don't agree" button which is equal to close the >> site. So telemetry-like behavior even lacks opt-out. >> >> [...] >> >> I can imagine we would make our pages work without cookies and add >> opt-in buttons to each main site. >> >> Now KDE context since there's visible call to make privacy our pillar topic: >> 1. Does www.kde.org for example use cookies? > > Yes, and we show the comply-with-Europe-law banner letting the user know > about those cookies. We also follow the browser Do Not Track setting and we > don't collect statistics if that is set. >
To meet obligations of the European law it's enough. Obvious but for the record: if we're discussing how much we would care about privacy -- this is delegating the responsibility to 3rdparty software. Which may or may not have this implemented or (most often) *has tracking set as opt-out*. Mozilla, Apple, Google for example have. MS tried to be the good boy [1]. We and GNOME are. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer_10_default_setting_controversy > -- > Nicolás > KDE Sysadmin Team -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek