On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Aoife Moloney wrote:
> == Summary ==
> 
> The Red Hat Display Systems Team (which develops the desktop) proposes
> to enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation
> usage metrics.

Given the detailed proposal, it's probably too late now for any fundamental
changes, but there's a formal research area called Differential Privacy [1]
that deals with the collection of user data in such a way that it preserves the
privacy of each participating individual.

Have you guys, by any chance, considered looking into that for some
inspiration?

Either way, if anyone is curious, there's a nice and easy-to-read write up on
the key concepts:
https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-awesomeness.html

A specific set of algorithms (RAPPOR) for collecting arbitrary user strings
that preserves Differential Privacy has been proposed (and implemented) by
Google a while back, too:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6981
https://github.com/google/rappor

-- 
Michal Domonkos / RPM dev team / Red Hat, Inc.
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