Privacy Debian 7
Hello there, I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy information about users witch is not good, so I wonder does Debian 7.2 collect ANY information about Users or monitoring? Thank you so much in advance. Best Regards.Matthew.
Re: Privacy Debian 7
praetorien grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy information > about users witch is not good, so I wonder does Debian 7.2 collect > ANY information about Users or monitoring? I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, NO Linux distribution does. --Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Privacy Debian 7
* On 2013 25 Nov 10:17 -0600, praetorien wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy information > about users witch is not good, so I wonder does Debian 7.2 collect ANY > information about Users or monitoring? As far as I am aware, no. There is a small caveat and that is the popcon (popularity contest) package that will record the packages you have installed and send an email for statistics to the developers. It is an opt-in package meaning that you will be queried by the Debian installer if you want to install the popcon package and then the popcon package will query if you wish to participate. There is no penalty or reduction of functionality in Debian if popcon is not installed. Some individual packages may have their own logic for reporting usage statistics and such and will likely be opt-in as well. This is most often limited to third party packages such as Firefox or Chrome which are not packaged in Debian (Iceweasel is the DFSG free version of Firefox and is a Debian package). - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131125163819.gb4...@n0nb.us
Re: Privacy Debian 7
On 25/11/13 16:35, David Guntner wrote: > praetorien grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy information >> about users witch is not good, so I wonder does Debian 7.2 collect >> ANY information about Users or monitoring? > > I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, NO Linux distribution > does. Debian *optionally* collects data about packages you have installed, to assess package popularity, but you need to enable it on installation. See http://popcon.debian.org/ -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52937ecc.3060...@vanderhoff.org
Re: Privacy Debian 7
Dave, * David Guntner wrote on 2013-11-25 at 08:35 (-0800): > praetorien grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy > > information about users witch is not good, so I wonder does > > Debian 7.2 collect ANY information about Users or monitoring? > > I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, NO Linux > distribution does. perhabs you know https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks Okay, as it's related to Ubuntu/Canonical it'll be rather off topic here. Regards, Mathias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131125181928.ga25...@gmx.org
Re: Privacy Debian 7
On Lu, 25 nov 13, 16:39:24, praetorien wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm a Windows user, but Microsoft may collect privacy information > about users witch is not good, so I wonder does Debian 7.2 collect ANY > information about Users or monitoring? Aside from the already mentioned popcon (opt-in, defaults to "No") there may be packages in Debian with the purpose of collecting data about your system or software (think hardware monitors). One other example not mentioned yet is the 'reportbug' program. However, if any such program would send the information "outside" without prior information *and* consent, this should be treated as a bug. Hope this clarifies, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
