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More on Apport "bug".

Just reporting another bug now, Apport gave me the option of including
logs. It said if you include logs they might contain personal data such
as username and something-or-other.

This is brilliant. A most welcome and reassuring sign of progress.

The procedure could be improved by automatically stripping out personal
data and replacing it with standard names.

E.g. username = user_x
        system = system_x
        all user-created directories given a unique name = e.g. dira, dir z1, dir az1, and so on.

Maybe there are other personal data that could be stripped out
automatically too? Perhaps enough that it might be possible for Apport
to reassure the user that all personal data has been stripped out?

I guess the same would have to be done with: filenames, user strings,
device names...

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Title:
  apport does not specify what personal data it collects and reports

Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  apport does not specify what personal data it collects and reports.

  So, for example, if you want to report a bug on gedit, you've no idea
  if it reports your doc content, or with Thunar your file system
  structure, or session, the names of every document and window you have
  open, and content. This discourages reporting.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: apport-gtk 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-35.50-generic 3.8.13.13
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-35-generic x86_64
  ApportLog:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashReports:
   640:1000:110:8454662:2014-03-12 16:45:40.956435918 +0000:2014-03-12 21:09:31.301023504 +0000:/var/crash/_usr_bin_zathura.1000.crash
   640:1000:110:4090625:2014-03-12 12:19:45.955843925 +0000:2014-03-12 12:19:46.955843925 +0000:/var/crash/_usr_bin_thunar.1000.crash
   640:1000:110:1515814:2014-03-11 18:49:21.854559421 +0000:2014-03-11 18:49:22.854559421 +0000:/var/crash/_usr_bin_xpdf.real.1000.crash
  Date: Fri Mar 14 08:56:07 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (470 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (303 days ago)

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