Opt-in / Opt-Out? A breakout topic for the F40 Change Request on Privacy-preserving telemetry for Fedora Workstation

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

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Straw poll on your preferences about opt-in / opt-out for possible data collection

As you have probably seen, we have an ongoing discussion about a proposal for gathering information from Fedora Linux systems to help the desktop-team make data-driven decisions. One of the most controversial aspects of this is how we obtain user consent — whether that is “opt in” or “opt out”. In the ensuing discussion, it became clear to me that this term has different meanings to different people, which adds to confusion in the conversation. @cassidyjames has a nice post about this and I’m b…