I have decided to contact ICO (Information Commissioner's Office). Because Canonical Ltd. has handled my personal information (IP address, Hardware CPU, Choice of Cloud Hosting, and various meta-data) and the one of the company I work for without concent.
The same apply to all users of Ubuntu (persons, companies, governements) worldwide on a daily basis. By collecting twice a day the following informations: - The public IP address where Ubuntu system is used (part of the log of the HTTPS server) - Date / Time when collected (part of the log of the HTTPS server) - Harware info such as CPU Vendor and Model (via /proc/cpuinfo) - The distribution version (via /etc/lsb-release) - The operating system (via uname -o) - The Linux kernel release (via uname -r) - The computer architecture aka machine hardware name (via uname -m) - Cloud Hosting: cloud identifier such as aws, gce, azure, lxd (via cloud-id part of cloud-init) - Total number of seconds the system has been up (via /proc/uptime) - The sum of how much time each core has spent idle in seconds (via /proc/uptime) - Version of curl software (launched as root which is a bad IT practice and a security risk) On top of that by making motd-news unremovable in the core of Ubuntu's base-files (like it was the case for Internet Explorer in Windows or the Telemery in Windows 10), they enforce the telemetry before you can disable it or opt-out from it. Fell free to fill your own complaint or contact your local information commissioner as this ticket is marked as Won't Fix by the manager of the Ubuntu Server team. https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/your-personal-information-concerns /personal-information-complaint/ -- 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
