Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool

[xman1]

Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool

Can we get some insights here please? I see the terms ‘privacy’ being removed from the description pages too on the main Manjaro websites as well. People who use Linux see tools like mentioned here as kryptonite. The very reason we moved to Linux was to get away from this data collection.

[kisun]

Hello @xman1,

did you have a look in here:

Testers needed: Manjaro Data Donor

I worked the last few days on a new Manjaro project: Manjaro Data Donor - short MDD. It is a way for us to gather a few usage statistics about Manjaro. The motivation for that at the start was to improve our user counting. Until now what has been done, was counting systems via ping.manjaro.org. These pings are sent from Manjaro systems via the NetworkManager. There were some problems with this approach though: Individual systems were only distinguished on basis of IP address. This doesn’t a…

[xman1]

Thanks, I will read through this.

[xman1]

OK, that data collection page is kind of cool.

Question: Is that all the data being collected? Or is there more? Will full disclosure of all data be presented to the user?

Last idea… I probably have little problem contributing to that data collection page, but the ability to enable or disable what data I share would be helpful.

[Aragorn]

@xman1

Question: Is that all the data being collected?

For now, yes. But this is still a project under development.

@xman1

Will full disclosure of all data be presented to the user?

Yes. With the current iteration of the tool in its testing phase, the user has the option of doing a dry run and seeing all the data, and then they can decide to upload the data or not.

There is currently a lot of discussion on the development thread — see the link posted higher up — regarding the privacy/GDPR implications, so I would advise monitoring that thread instead.