[Fedora-legal-list] Privacy policy

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 11:39 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 01/13/2015 03:58 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we are working on improving the abrt integration in the Fedora
> > Workstation for F22. Part of this is adding a 'automatic bug reporting'
> > setting to the privacy panel in the control center (see the last mockup
> > in
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-settings/privacy/current-gen.png )
> > 
> > The design suggests that we should include a link to privacy policy of
> > the OS vendor here. I've been pointed at
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy as the existing
> > Fedora privacy policy, but that seems entirely focused on Fedora the
> > project, not on the OS itself. It also does not mention coredumps (and
> > the associated data we may collect) at all. Could you add a section
> > about that here, or should there be a separate page describing the
> > privacy expectations when using Fedora, the OS ?
> 
> How does this sound?
> 
> == Automatic Bug Reporting ==
> Fedora contains tools designed to detect and report bugs when they occur
> on your system. These tools are configured so that the end-user must
> opt-in to reporting these bugs to us (either via a system-wide setting
> or on a case-by-case basis).
> 
> In reporting these bugs, we collect debugging information about the
> state of your system and its running applications. Every attempt is made
> to anonymize these reports and scrub them of personal information,
> however, it is possible that they may still contain personal information
> and/or information about your computer usage. Please keep this in mind
> before submitting these bug reports. By choosing to submit these
> reports, you are giving Fedora permission to use their contents, even if
> those contents contain personal information about you and/or your
> computer usage.

That sounds pretty good to me, thanks.