Data collection?

Posted Apr 3, 2025 8:43 UTC (Thu) by ddevault (subscriber, #99589)
Parent article: Catching up with calibre

Opt-in data collection with a strong user identifier (the UUID) with no way of turning it off... seems outright illegal in many contexts. EU, California, probably more.

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Data collection?

Posted Apr 3, 2025 9:46 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

Opt IN data collection - why would it be illegal?

So long as the user is told about the UUID, and gives their *informed* consent, I can't see any problem under UK (and presumably EU) law.

Cheers,
Wol

Data collection?

Posted Apr 3, 2025 10:51 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Having read the article, though, it feels more "opt-out" and the uuid isn't mentioned - that would be a massive red flag under EU privacy laws...

Cheers,
Wol

Data collection?

Posted Apr 4, 2025 12:02 UTC (Fri) by maharmstone (subscriber, #174156) [Link] (1 responses)

I once sent Kovid a polite e-mail saying precisely this, and asking him for a way to disable the telemetry, and received a torrent of abuse in return. Horrible man. Apparently he doesn't think that what he's doing is telemetry.

Data collection?

Posted Apr 6, 2025 19:58 UTC (Sun) by Flameeyes (guest, #51238) [Link]

He's definitely… a personality.

I used to package Calibre for Gentoo (from before it even had that name, it was libprs500 — named after the Sony Reader eInk devices), and even provided patches a couple of times… but never really managed to build even a slight bit of relationship.