GNOME’s privacy policy is not relevant in this case.
The text states reports are sent anonymously, scrubbed of identifying data. The first phrase is manifestly untrue (you must use a registered account to submit,) which raises doubts about the latter.
Sending reports of problems helps us improve Fedora Linux. Reports are sent anonymously and are scrubbed of personal data. Learn more
If using a registered account, by definition the report is not sent anonymously.
Where a claim is false, a further claim may also be false.
Expected behaviour:
The text should state reports are not sent anonymously with justification (presumably falsification/ddos exploit/spam…), but the report data does not include identifying characteristics and how to check that. The “Learn more” text should link to a relevant privacy policy.
Yeah, that’s used as a fallback for distros that don’t have their own privacy policy. Fedora used to have one but this was removed here. I don’t think it’s a useful fallback. That should probably be removed.
The text states reports are sent anonymously, scrubbed of identifying data. The first phrase is manifestly untrue (you must use a registered account to submit,) which raises doubts about the latter.
I think the text is correct. It applies to automatic problem reporting, which only submits a low-information backtrace showing function names and line numbers, but not, for example, local variables. And it only covers packaged software, so there shouldn’t be any possibility of leaking personal data. (Example) The manual problem reporting is separate.
The text is still incorrect if the only way the manual problem reporting is triggered is if this setting is enabled. If manual reporting is triggered when automated reporting is disabled, then that would be a different issue.
Thanks for submitting the other, and much more for being responsive!