KDE neon does not do this kind of tracking -- although it was originally
requested by KDE neon, no server roll-out was done once the
privacy policy was thought out.
Following KDE Pholio M116, switch to using a radio button; instead
of 4 individually toggle-able settings, use a "level" indicator
to select none, install, machine, user .. each of which implies
the previous levels. Each level is individually enable-able from
the distro side.
Each kind of tracking has an associated webpage / URL describing
the policy for that tracking. The Calamares User Guide has some
generic information. When the user clicks on the Help (?) button
in a tracking-option block, go to that URL.
This is experimental, off-by-default, code for developing a telemetry /
tracking configuration module. It is preliminary work for issue #628,
but also for KDE Neon configuration. Any telemetry should conform to
the KDE Telemetry Policy [1] or similar Free Software telemetry policy
(e.g. the Mozilla one).
[1] https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy
Initial idea is to distinguish three kinds of tracking:
- installs. This tracks that OS <foo> has been installed somewhere.
It might send some machine information to a remote server.
- machines. This enables some kind of machine tracking in the
installed system, for instance it could enable popcon on
Debian, or periodic phone-home-pings.
- users. This enables some kind of telemetry / tracking on the
installed user in the system.
A simple and transparent setting is to enable install-tracking and set
it to opt-in, and disable machine and user tracking. Explain to the
user that <foo> would like to know when <foo> is installed, and that
the following information <d1>, <d2> will be sent to <url> in accordance
to the <foo> telemetry policy at <url2>.
Work in this branch is subject to VDG review for the visuals, and
privacy oversight by whatever group is responsible for <foo> privacy.
Note that this module makes it *possible* for telemetry configuration
to be visible inside the installer; what distro's do with telemetry
already is entirely outside the scope of this configuration module.
