On 02/14/2018 04:22 PM, Will Cooke wrote: > Dear all, > > We want to be able to focus our engineering efforts on the things that > matter most to our users, and in order to do that we need to get some > more data about sort of setups our users have and which software they > are running on it. > > We would like to add a checkbox to the installer, exact wording TBD, but > along the lines of “Send diagnostics information to help improve > Ubuntu”. This would be checked by default.
Please make this an opt-in rather than an opt-out. This just smells like a trend towards a Windows/Android installation where you have to unset gazillions of check boxes to prevent the machine from posting your life to the vendor. We shouldn't go there. > The result of having that box checked would be: > > * Information from the installation would be sent over HTTPS to a > service run by Canonical’s IS team. This would be saved to disk and > sent on first boot once there is a network connection. So sent only once or after every reboot? > The file > containing this data would be available for the user to inspect. > > That data would include: > * Ubuntu Flavour > * Ubuntu Version > * Network connectivity or not > * CPU family > * RAM > * Disk(s) size > * Screen(s) resolution > * GPU vendor and model > * OEM Manufacturer > * Location (based on the location selection made by the user at > install). No IP information would be gathered > * Installation duration (time taken) > * Auto login enabled or not > * Disk layout selected > * Third party software selected or not > * Download updates during install or not > * LivePatch enabled or not > > * Popcon would be installed. This will allow us to spot trends in > package usage and help us to focus on the packages which are of most > value to our users. Are you saying that popcon is automatically installed and enabled? I haven't performed an Ubuntu install lately but isn't there an install question asking whether to enable popcon or not (with the default being no). Or is that Debian? > * Apport would be configured to automatically send anonymous crash > reports without user interruption. I hope this will be clearly articulated during install time. > The results of this data would be made public. Same here. People need to know that their data is publicly (yet anonymously) visible. > E.g. People would be > able to see that X% of Ubuntu users are based in .de vs Y% in .za. Z% > of our users run Dell hardware, and so on. > The Ubuntu privacy policy would be updated to reflect this change. > > Any user can simply opt out by unchecking the box, which triggers one > simple POST stating, “diagnostics=false”. Why does this require a POST (over the network)? > There will be a corresponding > checkbox in the Privacy panel of GNOME Settings to toggle the state of this. > > And to reiterate, the service which stores this data would *never* store > IP addresses. > > We value your feedback and comments! I don't believe that sending data by default is 'a thing that matters most to our users'. Quite the opposite in fact. MS was/is getting a lot of heat for their data collection and we shouldn't go down that very same route by making data gathering the default. ...Juerg > Cheers, Will > On behalf of the Ubuntu Desktop Team > > >
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