Approaches to data handling, safety, and avoiding individual identification — a breakout topic for the F40 Change Request on Privacy-preserving telemetry for Fedora Workstation

[catanzaro (Michael Catanzaro)]

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Yeah if you’re going to be inflexible about that part, that might be a problem. There might be a chance if you completely open source the data resulting from the telemetry. “All cards on the table” so to speak.

I had been hoping that the “run your own telemetry server” idea would be sufficient to avoid concerns about collecting too much. But I am willing to consider releasing all the data. I would prefer not to, because I do not know whether people who are smarter than me could potentially figure out how to deanonymize it. But if the Fedora community really wants the data released, I’m not going to strongly object to that.