Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

[Martin Albisetti]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> > Unfortunately all Ubuntu seems to be working on is features that
>> > create privacy concerns (like the scopes sending search requests to
>> > Canonical servers).
>> >
>> > ...
>>
>> Ubuntu is an operating system, not a person. Neither you nor I get to
>> decide priorities for Canonical engineers. But anyone is welcome to
>> implement privacy features and propose them for inclusion in Ubuntu.
>>
>
> Canonical Engineers have pretty much ignored the proposal of even one member
> of the Ubuntu Tech Board in regards to user privacy.
>
> What makes you believe if Canonical ignores a former security team
> member/current tech board member and the EFF that they will give anyone
> else's proposal the time of day?

It was not ignored, it was read, understood and taken into account.
The fact that someone thinks that within their own domain of
expertise, a feature should be disabled, it doesn't mean that in the
overall context it should.
The trade-off of the scopes features was well understood and just like
many other controversial decisions that have been made over the years,
it was decided that overall it would benefit the project the most in
the mid/long-term.


> The sad thing is the community does nearly as much work to produce Ubuntu
> but has almost no say in its direction or features.

Please don't troll a random thread that only vaguely overlaps with a
topic you are personally unhappy with. So far the conversation has
been friendly, productive and positive.
I expect much more from someone with a position of leadership in the
community reviewing candidates for approval of official members, and
so does the Code of Conduct[1].


> I think at this point the best option for privacy is to install a community
> flavor.

Or just perform 3 clicks and disable the scopes connecting to the
servers to send your query and return smarter results.


[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct

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Martin