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Re: How do we protect the user from data-collecting apps?

 

On 10/07/2015 10:11 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
Hi all!
   I've been thinking about this for a while, but always forgot to ask
others' opinion about this, till now. :-)

We do a great job in protecting privacy-sensitive resources such as
camera and location, which are available only after an explicit grant by
the user.
However, network access is automatically granted to all applications,
and the user is not notified of any online activity. That is, there is
no guarantee that a photo application wouldn't upload the photos it
takes to some third party service, or that one developer writes a clone
of the SensorStatus app which uploads all the data somewhere.

The following is currently being discussed:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#activity-indicator

No idea yet if this has been fully committed/scheduled yet, but it's on the radar.

/t



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