On 6 December 2017 at 04:43, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:

anyway *no data is collected without asking first*��

I demanded that and if someone sneaked in without permission, I will be very very upset.

+10^10

Thx Esteban.�� Its good to know you champion this.

No need to panic, but its easy to get complacent on this.��

Of course researcher's *need* data and know themselves to be trustworthy��

But even with the best intentions, its not just about "doing the right thing",��

but "being seen to do the right thing". Credibility is hard to earn and easy to destroy.��

Some people are overly sensitive about this... ;-)

"How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did"

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/#4cee9cb66668

Having a setting to enable this buried deep in Settings is probably not ideal.

Such a setting *must* be off-by-default, even though I'm personally happy to enable i,

I'm not so enthusiastic��to go to the trouble navigating��

to Settings to enable it each time I start a new image.��

Perhaps the Welcome window should have a Privacy tab describing��

what data is being gathered by who, with a tick box there to enable it.��

I'd probably enable it more often if it was only two clicks away.

cheers -ben

Esteban

On 5 Dec 2017, at 21:39, Juraj Kubelka <juraj.kubelka@icloud.com> wrote:

I understand it. For that reason there are settings.

Cheers,
Juraj

On Dec 5, 2017, at 17:34, Sean Glazier <sglazier456@gmail.com> wrote:

Personally, I know of work places where this is not going to be allowed. I understand they need the data, but you need to be able to turn it off. A secure facility would not allow the transmission out in any case.

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Kind Regards,
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Sean Glazier
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On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Juraj Kubelka <juraj.kubelka@icloud.com> wrote:
Check Privacy section in Settings Browser.
If you ever send anything, data are anonymized.
Developers use it to be able to evaluate their research (PhD) work. It is a requirement in the research field.
By sending the anonymized data, you help developers to understand how their tools are used.
In particular, I am aware of Spotter, Quality Assistant, GT tools, and Roassal.

Cheers,
Juraj

> On Dec 5, 2017, at 16:30, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard@pieber.com> wrote:
>
> I just found a file named org.pharo.global-identifiers.ston in my preferences folder. It contains a #secretUUID and a #computerUUID. :-( What is this information used for? More importantly, how can I turn it off?
>
> Bernhard