Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

[Marc Deslauriers]

On 13-06-24 01:12 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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. 
> 

Unity doesn't either. The local searches are kept local.
Only the global search box sends results to the network.

Marc.