On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Aoife Moloney wrote:
== Summary ==
The Red Hat Display Systems Team (which develops the desktop) proposes
to enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation
usage metrics.
Given the detailed proposal, it's probably too late now for any fundamental
changes, but there's a formal research area called Differential Privacy [1]
that deals with the collection of user data in such a way that it preserves the
privacy of each participating individual.
Have you guys, by any chance, considered looking into that for some
inspiration?
Either way, if anyone is curious, there's a nice and easy-to-read write up on
the key concepts:
https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-awesomeness.html
A specific set of algorithms (RAPPOR) for collecting arbitrary user strings
that preserves Differential Privacy has been proposed (and implemented) by
Google a while back, too:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6981
https://github.com/google/rappor
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Michal Domonkos / RPM dev team / Red Hat, Inc.