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It seems the humor of my last bug report was lost on some so here is a
serious report.
In 12.10, a semi-hidden legal notice tells us that by using the dash,
unless we have opted out, we agree to allow Ubuntu to collect our
keystrokes, and send them along with o
Public bug reported:
Despite claims from Mark Shuttleworth that data is not sent to Amazon
(http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182), a quick look at
Wireshark reveals that all images resulting from search results are
downloaded directly from Amazon (see attached picture).
Worse still, the
** Attachment added: "HTTP request to ecx.images-amazon.com"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055952/+attachment/3340283/+files/dataleak.png
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** Description changed:
Despite claims from Mark Shuttleworth that data is not sent to Amazon
(http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182), a quick look at
Wireshark reveals that all images resulting from search results are
downloaded directly from Amazon (see attached picture).
Wo
> Apparently Amazon DOES get your IP address and enough data to statistically
> infer your query when a search is performed.
> http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/09/25/technical-diagram-of-how-unity-shopping-lens-likely-works
I've written about this here: https://perot.me/ubuntu-privacy-blunder-
ove
Duplicate of 1055952, I believe
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Some suggestions (from https://perot.me/ubuntu-privacy-blunder-over-
amazon-ads-continues) on how to fix the thumbnail downloading issue:
(One of the following)
- On the productsearch.ubuntu.com site, download the thumbnails directly
and embed them into the JSON result sent to the client, using t
@keremhd: While I fully agree with your opinion about the privacy
implications of the shopping lens towards Canonical and what data is
being passed around to them, this is not what this bug is about.
This bug is about the fact that Shuttleworth's statement, "We are not
telling Amazon what you are
Maybe the GNOME folks would share a bit of their $20,000 that they
raised to enhance security and privacy for the GNOME desktop?
https://www.gnome.org/news/2013/07/gnome-raises-2-to-enhance-
security-and-privacy/
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