Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

[Scott Kitterman]

Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at canonical.com> wrote:

>On 13-06-23 03:41 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
>>> 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?
>
>That is completely untrue. I looked at the proposals and the opinions,
>and I
>disagree with them. Just because I disagree with someone's opinion on
>what an
>adequate level of privacy is doesn't mean I've ignored them.
>
>I want Ubuntu to be as capable and usable as other operating systems,
>and this
>includes having a global search that returns Internet results.
>
>> 
>>> The sad thing is the community does nearly as much work to produce
>Ubuntu but
>>> has almost no say in its direction or features.
>
>That is also untrue.
>
>> 
>>> I think at this point the best option for privacy is to install a
>community flavor.
>
>Are there any community flavors that are specialized in privacy?

AFAIK, none of the non-Unity flavors send local search results across the network by default. This seems to me a very reasonable approach for default behavior. I don't think it's necessary to specialize in privacy to take such an approach. 

Scott K