update-manager --no-focus-on-map ??

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 01:39:09 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>Use the Internet, and stop panicking, or get off it and stay off it.

The new problem is, that your digital audio workstation, your virtual
machine, your desktop search phones home, your bug reporting tool sends
private data, that is irrelevant for the bug report etc., IOW a lot of
Linux users are not aware, that this happens with Linux environments,
even when not using the Internet by a web browser. They expect this
happens, if you're using an Apple tablet, but actually it happens, if
you're using Ubuntu and other distros too. Regarding privacy Ubuntu
btw. is the most evil distro. The good is, that they compile e.g.
Ardour with the no phone home flag, but OTOH a default Ubuntu installs
all kinds of evil homemade software [1].

It also makes a difference if the Internet per se is not secure and
offended privacy as soon as you just type something into the search
engine, without pushing enter.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

Apport

"[...] You can click on "Show Details..." to see what data it collected
[...] Apport is not enabled by default in stable releases, even if it
is installed. The automatic crash interception component of apport is
disabled by default in stable releases for a number of reasons:

    Apport collects potentially sensitive data, such as core dumps,
    stack traces, and log files. They can contain passwords, credit
    card numbers, serial numbers, and other private material. [...]"
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport


Whoopsi

"Invitation for metrics collection

For any administrator, after the first time only that they respond to
an error alert, a second alert should appear to invite them to opt in
to metrics collection. (The “Esc” key should activate “Don’t Send” in
this alert, but the “Enter” key should not do anything.)

[...]

The “Privacy…” button should open System Settings to the Privacy panel.
Choosing “Send” should be equivalent to checking “Send occasional
system information to Canonical” in the Privacy settings.

[...]

Along with the report, Whoopsie sends an obfuscated (SHA512) system
identifier (DMI system UUID). This information is collected so that we
can show a graph of the average errors per calendar day. It also lets
us answer questions like, “is Ubuntu more stable in the first week of
use or subsequent weeks?”" - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker

So root privileges are likely needed to get the unique ID of a
computer.

DMI

$ sudo dmidecode | grep -i uuid
$ sudo cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid