Public bug reported:
Hello,
So, I just realized about an hour ago that whoopsie has been sending bug
reports without my consent since May (2020-05-11 to be exact) from
checking journalctl where I can see lines like these:
Uploading /var/crash/[...]
Sent; server replied with: No error
Response code: 200
Reported OOPS ID [...]
I checked the "Diagnostics" GUI in the gnome-control-center and it does
have "Send error reports to Canonical" set to "Never"... I tried
switching it to "Manual" and back to "Never" and that did have an effect
in /etc/, namelely when going from "Never" to "Manual":
renamed: rc2.d/K01whoopsie -> rc2.d/S01whoopsie
renamed: rc3.d/K01whoopsie -> rc3.d/S01whoopsie
renamed: rc4.d/K01whoopsie -> rc4.d/S01whoopsie
renamed: rc5.d/K01whoopsie -> rc5.d/S01whoopsie
new file: systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/whoopsie.service
and the opposite effect is achieved when switching back to "Never". So
far so good, I guess...
My /etc/ does have a "whoopsie" file (/etc/whoopsie) which doesn't seem
to be present in clean installations of Ubuntu and which has the
following contents:
[General]
report_metrics=true
Switching from "true" to "false" does seem to disable whoopsie, so
that's nice I guess... but what is this file doing here in the first
place? To clarify, this was originally an Ubuntu 18.04 system which I
recently upgraded to 20.04 but the unsolicited error report uploads have
been going on since well before the upgrade so that's not the issue.
I don't remember touching anything on my system relating to apport or
whoopsie and my shell history doesn't contain anything about whoopsie or
apport so this situation seems to have occurred on its own (perhaps
after an update?).
This is a pretty serious breach of privacy (and of the GDPR) and others
might also be unknowingly affected like I was, so the team in charge of
this might want to push an update that for instance resets the
/etc/whoopsie file if present (if that truly is the problem).
While I'm at it I would like all the error reports sent from my computer
to be deleted. Where can I ask for that? I haven't seen an option for
that anywhere, apart from contacting dataprotect...@canonical.com.
Best regards.
** Affects: whoopsie (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Whoopsie sends bug reports automatically without consent
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