Online Smart Scopes Do Not Respect User Privacy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
libunity |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unity Team | ||
libunity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unity Team | ||
Quantal |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Raring |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
See this from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a well respected "international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization" (as described on Wikipedia): https:/
Obviously, despite some improvements that have came late in the 12.10 development cycle, there are still serious privacy concerns with the unity shopping lens. To be more precise, here are the main problems to be fixed according to EFF:
- Disable "Include online search results" by default.
- Explain in detail what Canonical does with search queries and IP addresses, how long it stores them, and in what circumstances it gives them to third parties.
- Make the Search Results tab of the Privacy settings let users toggle on and off specific online search results, as some users might want Amazon products in their search results, but never anything from Facebook.
Here is another related bug:
#1055952 Direct data leaking to Amazon: https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity-lens-shopping 6.8.0-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.5.6-030506-
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 30 06:35:38 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-02-12 (260 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity-lens-shopping
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-28 (31 days ago)
Related branches
- Unity Team: Pending requested
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Diff: 12 lines (+1/-1)1 file modifieddata/com.canonical.Unity.Lenses.gschema.xml.in.in (+1/-1)
summary: |
- No respect of privacy - Implementation of EFF recommandations required + Users privacy not respected - Implementation of EFF recommandations + required |
Changed in unity-lens-shopping (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity-lens-shopping (Ubuntu Raring): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity-lens-shopping (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
milestone: | none → quantal-updates |
Changed in unity-lens-shopping (Ubuntu Raring): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-13.04-beta-1 |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) |
Changed in unity-lens-shopping (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) |
no longer affects: | unity-lens-shopping |
tags: | added: i386 privacy |
Changed in libunity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in libunity (Ubuntu Raring): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
information type: | Public → Public Security |
information type: | Public Security → Public |
tags: | added: raring saucy |
summary: |
- Shopping Lens Does Not Respect User Privacy + Online Smart Scopes Does Not Respect User Privacy |
summary: |
- Online Smart Scopes Does Not Respect User Privacy + Online Smart Scopes Do Not Respect User Privacy |
Changed in libunity: | |
assignee: | nobody → Unity Team (unity-team) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → In Progress |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.