Privacy

System wide privacy controls, including application access to content and devices.

provide the user with a way to see and control what information about them is being stored.

Participants

WilliamJonMcCann, AllanDay, JakubSteiner

Objectives

Primary goals:

• Review which content collections, system services and devices are being used by applications.
• Allow application access to be reviewed and revoked.
• Provide a way to see what information about you the system has stored
• Be able to clear out stored personal information

Relevant Art

OS X 10.6

iOS 6

Google Dashboard

Discussion

Tentative Guidelines

Previous Mockups

Jon's old mockups

Some explanations from an IRC discussion of the design:

• Stealth mode is meant to 'force off' the other settings in that dialog
• Local network appearance: this means mdns / avahi
• 'Do not track': maybe not the best term to use here, there's a web thing by that name, and we just want it to control the history tracking here

Comments

See Also

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityAndPrivacySettings (Unity's Zeitgeist-based design using activity-log-manager)