The Ubuntu section manager desktop of Canonical, Will Cooke announced yesterday that the company wants to apply some data collection mechanism to future versions of Ubuntu Linux to improve features that are more relevant to users.
The information will be managed by Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop engineers and needed to improve some characteristics του λειτουργικού συστήματος, όπως τις ρυθμίσεις των χρηστών, του εγκατεστημένου λογισμικού, της γεύσης και της έκδοσης του Ubuntu, της συνδεσιμότητας στο δίκτυο, της οικογένειας CPU, της μνήμης RAM, καθώς και το OEM build.
In addition, the company says it should know your location, but promises not to store users' IP addresses.
Other information that will be collected includes the total installation time, automatic connection information, the selected layout of the disk, the activation of LivePatch and if you choose to install updates or third-party software during installation.
Canonical reports that it plans to implement the new data collection option from the installer through a check box called "Send diagnostic information to improve Ubuntu”And which will be enabled by default.
Of course, you will be able to disable it during installation if you do not want to give your data to Canonical.
Canonical reported that all data collected by the installation will be sent securely to a service managed by the Canonical IS Group via HTTPS.
The data will be stored locally on your computer and will be sent to Canonical at the first startup and once an active network connection is detected.
All users according to the company will be able to access the file containing the collected data and that the results of this data collection will be made public.
