 My response to @fedora’s proposal to implement opt-out data collection in Fedora, which was marked as hidden and “flagged as inappropriate: the community feels it is offensive, abusive, to be hateful conduct or a violation of our community guidelines.” Posting it here, on a space I own, where it cannot be marked as anything by Fedora/Red Hat/IBM: #fedora #surveillance #privacy #ibm #redHat #telemetry 1/N 17 comments
@fedora “…If not, and it’s something people will absolutely love, I hope it will be implemented for all your paying enterprise customers also. After all, I’m sure you’d hate for folks to think you believe corporations deserve privacy whereas people don’t. I have no doubt it will go down great with large corporations (they love profiling people so I guess that means they’d love getting profiled too, right? Unless they’re hypocrites, of course).” 3/3   @aral this response is amazing, thank you. please repost it from time to time to see if it will happen again.   @aral @fedora Incidentally, it is a feature in RHEL. We (Red Hat engineering) use data from it to prioritise work all the time: it's really useful in working out what's going to be most beneficial to our customers. Not sure what the default policy is, but we definitely don't get data from everybody. When using the data, we need to be mindful of industry segments who always switch it off/don't enable it (whichever applies). I don't understand blocking your comment, btw.  This is an issue that will be of direct concern to RedHat's and IBM's stockholders. :D It is well-known that "Opt-Out" mailing lists are worthless. The only real value is with "Opt-In" lists. By making the tracking Opt-Out, they are directly reducing the shareholder value, which is the exact opposite of what they are being paid to do. Everyone receiving a salary that is directly involved with this situation is now personally liable to shareholder lawsuits. :D Buy some stock, not so that you can reap the dividends, but so that you have a "Right To Sue" the C-suite personally over their decisions... :D As Quell said "Make it personal." :D   @aral @fedora |
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@fedora “If this is a feature you believe people want, make the toggle switches off by default so folks can excitedly tell you how much they want to send data to Fedora/Red Hat/IBM.
Also, is this a feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
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