Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rowland Lenton wrote on 12/10/11 21:08: > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:29 -0400, Jeremy Bicha > ... >> (Drifting offtopic, would it make sense for the Music Store to >> be part of Software Center?) No. Ubuntu Software Center doesn't have a Play

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 12. okt. 2011 19:52, skrev David Barth: I don't know either. But I suspect that would take some previous space on the CD and then local install. Not to mention the need for very frequent updates. And an out-of-date database would be even worse, ie not returning any of the new music hits.

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:29 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > Alternatively, could the entire online store "library" be cached to > user's computers? This should speed up search and there shouldn't be a > privacy concern. It could be similar to what app-install-data does. > But how much space would

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:18:43 +0200, David Barth wrote: > Le 11/10/2011 22:04, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : > > > > Apple had an equivalent privacy problem with the iTunes MiniStore five > > years ago. there's a significant difference, i

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread David Barth
Le 12/10/2011 19:36, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : On 12 October 2011 13:18, David Barth wrote: Which I think, under further guidance of the Design team, we could turn into a mode whereby results are only retrieved if the user unfolds the section containing suggestions. At the moment, search queries

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 12 October 2011 13:18, David Barth wrote: > Which I think, under further guidance of the Design team, we could turn into > a mode whereby results are only retrieved if the user unfolds the section > containing suggestions. > > At the moment, search queries are passed to all scopes in advance, t

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread David Barth
Le 11/10/2011 22:04, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 11/10/11 12:43: ... I had difficulties believing this to be true, so I tested it. I searched for an artist of which I have no records, and sure enough, the music lense

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread Jason Warner
Hi Jo-Erlend , Thanks for taking the time to write up your thoughts and caring enough about Ubuntu to share them with the list! I have some general thoughts on this and then more specific music lens thoughts. Privacy is an important component of Ubuntu computing and we take that seriously. As Ub

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 11/10/11 12:43: > ... > > I had difficulties believing this to be true, so I tested it. I > searched for an artist of which I have no records, and sure > enough, the music lense told me I could purchase it. I then > disco

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-11 Thread Didier Roche
Le 11/10/2011 13:43, Jo-Erlend Schinstad a écrit : I was a little bit surprised to read that the Music Lense will actually send your searches to an online database by default and without asking any permission beforehand. In earlier versions of Ubuntu, things like popcon have not been activated

Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-11 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
I was a little bit surprised to read that the Music Lense will actually send your searches to an online database by default and without asking any permission beforehand. In earlier versions of Ubuntu, things like popcon have not been activated by default and you've always been confident that th