The department manager Ubuntu Desktop by Canonical, Will Cooke announced yesterday that the company wants to implement some collection mechanism data in future versions of Ubuntu Linux to improve features that matter most to users.
Information will be handled by Canonical Ubuntu Desktop technicians and needed to improve certain features of the operating system, such as user settings, installed software, flavor and Ubuntu version, network connectivity, CPU family, RAM, and 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 total time installations, automatic connection information, the selected disk layout, LivePatch activation, and whether you choose to install updates or third-party software during installation.
Canonical says it plans to implement the new choice data collection 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 computer and will be sent to Canonical on first boot and as soon as 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.
