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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 07, 2023,
updated Jul 12, 2023
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The Fedora project is considering a Fedora 40 change proposal to add limited, opt-out telemetry to the workstation edition. The proposal is detailed; it is clear that the developers involved understand that this will be a hard sell in that community.
Read on
=> https://lwn.net/Articles/937528/ ↺ Read On: LWN
Ed: "Telemetry" = we give you some software but still control it remotely, will pull data out of it (by default, as many people do not change these defaults). It's not truly yours, we remotely observe its usage. What next? Remote activation? CASM detection? Paywalls?
Two more:
=> https://linuxiac.com/fedora-40-plans-to-use-telemetry/ ↺ Fedora 40 Plans to Trample User Privacy with Telemetry Integration
After causing an earthquake in the Linux community last month by putting the future of Rocky and Alma at stake by limiting access to source code, their backed Linux distribution Fedora is now coming out with a new, highly controversial proposal.
=> https://www.itpro.com/software/linux/fedora-workstation-devs-face-community-backlash-over-plans-to-collect-telemetry-data ↺ Fedora Workstation devs face community backlash over plans to collect telemetry data
Described as “privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation”, the proposal from the Red Hat Display Systems Team would enable the collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics.
UPDATE
Another one:
=> https://fosspost.org/fedora-wants-to-add-telemetry-to-its-linux-distribution/ ↺ Fedora Wants to Add Telemetry To its Linux Distribution
A proposal by a Red Hat engineer is causing controversy in the Fedora community, which is related to the addition of opt-out telemetry to the Fedora desktop workstation edition.
Liam Dawe:
=> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/fedora-considering-adding-in-privacy-preserving-telemetry/ ↺ Fedora considering adding in 'privacy-preserving' telemetry
Quite a controversial topic currently floating around is that a change proposal has been made for Fedora Workstation 40 to have some "privacy-preserving" telemetry to "enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics".
Liam Proven:
=> https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/fedora_privacy_telemetry/ ↺ Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry
The Fedora Project is considering a proposal to introduce some limited usage telemetry in a future release. Predictably, quite a few users are not delighted with this development.
The suggested "privacy preserving" change would introduce some very limited telemetry into Fedora 40 next year, and as far as we can tell, this would only apply to the default GNOME desktop edition. The accompanying discussion is, as you might expect, already quite spirited.
The proposal actually seems fairly modest. It would be fully anonymized, not collect any personally identifiable information, not collect search queries, and so on. Last time we looked, the project hadn't got as far as defining exactly which stats would be collected.