smolt privacy policy
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon Feb 19 18:37:51 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:08 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> I've created a first draft of the smolt Privacy Policy. Please note: It
> is not a legal document, it's the Infrastructures policy of how we'll be
> protecting the information.
>
> http://hg.fedoraproject.org/hg/hosted/smolt?f=d7efe18be592;file=doc/PrivacyPolicy
>
> It is also my intention to add package lists in the very near future. I
> believe this policy covers that. Please let me know what you think not
> just in terms of content but also wording, formatting, etc.
Since it's short, I'll paste it here:
> Smolt's intention is to send only hardware and basic OS information to the
"intention" is to open. Should be a definitive statement that smolt
_only_ sends hardware and OS information.
> Fedora smolt server (smoon). The only tie from the database to a submitters
> machine is the UUID. As long as the submitter does not give out this UUID
> the submission should be considered anonymous. If at any point in time a user
s/should be considered/is. Again, make it definitive.
> wants to delete their profile from the database they need only run
>
> smoltDeleteProfile
>
> The information sent to the smolt database server should be considered public
> in that anyone can come in and view the statistics and share machine
remove the "come in" part.
> profiles. In many ways smolt is designed to get hardware vendors and other
> 3rd parties attention. As such, not only will this information be shared with
> 3rd parties, we will be using smolt as a lever to gain better support for open
"we will be using smolt as leverage..."
> source drivers and better support in general.
>
> IP Logging. In Fedora's smolt install all web traffic goes through a proxy
> server first. This is the only place IP addresses are being logged and they
> are kept on that server for a period of 4 weeks at which time log rotation
> removes these logs. The Fedora Project does not aggrigate ip addresses in
aggregate IP
> the smolt database. These logs are private and will not be available to the
> general public.
> Users unhappy with this policy should simply not use smolt. Users with
> questions about this policy should contact the Fedora Infrastructure Team at
> admin [at] fedoraproject.org Also remember that users can delete their
> profiles at any time using "smoltDeleteProfile"
josh
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