Privacy: Ubuntu users don't have the opportunity to opt-out from motd-news before all the private infos and telemetry are sent via User-Agent. So even if people change ENABLED=1 to ENABLED=0 in /etc/default/motd-news they only stop future leaks but the initial leak has already been done in background after the boot via systemd/motd-news service.
I repeat, this doesn't look GRPD-compliant at all. There is no prior consent ever asked for. The GDPR was adopted on 14 April 2016, and became enforceable beginning 25 May 2018. motd-news has been designed in 2017 and is enabled by default on all Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Flavors (such as Mate, Raspberry), Ubuntu derived such as Nvidia Jetson Nano without prior consent. Security: Run curl as root every 12h are you serious? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867424 Title: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
