Ivan Čukić

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KDE Privacy Sprint

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development section, on 11 January 2019

A bit more than a year ago, the KDE community decided to focus on a few goals. One of those goals (the most important one as far as I’m concerned) is to increase the users’ control over their private data.

KDE developers and users have always been a privacy-minded bunch. But due to all the fun things that have happened in the recent years, we had to switch to the next gear.

We have seen new projects like KDE Itinerary (by Volker), Plasma Vault (by yours truly), Plasma Mycroft (by Yuri and Aditya), etc. There has also been a lot of work to improve our existing projects like KMail.

Now, this post is not about any of these.

It is about a KDE Privacy developer sprint organized by Sando Knauß.

The sprint will be held in Leipzig (Germany) from 22. 3. to 26. 3. and all privacy-minded contributors are invited to join.

Comments:

vmyn
Hi Ivan,
I highly appreciate that KDE has a focus on privacy and I am thankful for everyone who spends time on it! Though the goal would be more credible if developers would avoid using services that (could) track users and make their blogs privacy friendly. https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcukic.co%2F shows some potential for improvement for your blog...
Nevertheless I wish you a happy privacy sprint :)
Ivan Čukić
@vmyn Fair enough :)

I'll check whether the metrics I use obey the 'do not track'. That's most I can do at this point as I want to follow how many visitors I have.
vmyn
Don't forget to check it for both analytics services. Do you need so many statistics? ;) Maybe you could also set the Referrer-Policy header to "no-referrer" or "same-origin" to avoid referrer leakage. Actually I would expect everybody working on a project proclaiming privacy to be an example in this regard. So third party requests should be close to 0 for blogs aggregated on planet.kde.org. Google Fonts could be self-hosted if not avoided. For embedded third party content (e.g. Videos) some kind of lazy loading which requires user interaction before making the request could be used (for example how videos are embedded in the nextcloud.com blog). Maybe KDE's privacy goal should include making the KDE related blogs more privacy friendly... Maybe KDE could even offer services for developer blogs (e.g. Matomo, or an alternative for Disqus used on many blogs). (Though I could understand if developers don't want to depend on services for their private sites that somehow depend on their work for KDE.)
Ivan Čukić
I decided to move to Metrica some time ago, but never completed the move because of Google Fonts -- abandoning Google metrics and still linking to Google Fonts is a bit pointless.

I agree with you, but there is something you're not considering -- KDE devs (myself included) are not usually web developers. We are not up-to-date on the latest web snooping technologies that we need to avoid. :)

KDE-provided services for things like these sound cool. but we need someone to do the work.
vmyn
I think the first step should be to rise awareness and provide some kind of guide for privacy friendly sites. A further step could be to check if and which services can be provided to resolve remaining issues.
Ivan
I agree. We just need someone willing to invest time to improve all that.

I've already spent more than enough to fix the issues on my site that https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/cukic.co reports - the work is quite tedious :)
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