Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry [LWN.net]

Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Posted Jul 10, 2023 14:09 UTC (Mon) by nixfu (guest, #165829)
Parent article: Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

$100 says this is IBM wanting to track who is using Fedora, so they can build a list of IP's of corporations they can then go try and sell RHEL to.

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Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Posted Jul 10, 2023 14:51 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> $100 says this is IBM wanting to track who is using Fedora, so they can build a list of IP's of corporations they can then go try and sell RHEL to.

IP addresses are explicitly *not* collected as part of this proposal. Indeed, there are no per-device/user identifiers collected at all, which you would have known if you'd bothered to *read* the proposal instead of just mouthing off against it.

Meanwhile, you do understand that IP address information has _always_ been obtainable/available through the download mirror infrastructure?

LOL

Posted Jul 11, 2023 3:55 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]

I've heard a lot of silly, over-the-top reactions to this proposal, but I do think you're the overall winner so far (although close call runner-ups for the person who called this "equivalent to slavery", and the guy who said that we are "the devil").

You can donate your $100 to Outreachy, EFF, or to LWN. (The latter I think not tax deducible.)