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GNOME Goal: Privacy review

Guidelines

GNOME has been working on improving privacy for its users, including endorsing the User Data Manifesto. This GNOME Goal is to do a review of each module in GNOME and see if it could be made more privacy-aware or tweaked to improve how it deals with the user’s data.

All modules which interact with the user’s data are affected by this goal, including daemons.

For each module, review its functionality and how it handles user data, and file bugs with suggestions for improvements (if there are any). For example, check it against the points in the User Data Manifesto. Could the module be accidentally leaking data without the user’s permission (for example, implicitly sending a list of songs they listen to to online lyrics services which could then maliciously log the data)? Can the user easily export their data from the module if they want?

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Status of this goal

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State	Markup
todo	`<: #ff8080> todo`
patch	`<: #ffcc50> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|patch]]`
done	`<: #80ff80> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|done]]`
not needed	`<: #80ff80> not needed`

Above are the states and corresponding markup to update the modules state table below.

Tarball	Status
core
at-spi2-core	to do
at-spi2-atk	to do
dconf	to do
evolution-data-server	to do
glib-networking	to do
gnome-bluetooth	to do
gnome-online-accounts	to do
gnome-control-center	to do
gnome-desktop	to do
adwaita-icon-theme	to do
gnome-keyring	to do
gnome-menus	to do
gnome-packagekit	to do
gnome-session	to do
gnome-settings-daemon	to do
gnome-shell	to do
gnome-themes-standard	to do
gsettings-desktop-schemas	to do
gvfs	to do
mousetweaks	to do
mutter	to do
network-manager-applet	to do
pulseaudio	to do
telepathy-mission-control	to do
core-utilities
baobab	to do
bijiben	to do
empathy	to do
eog	to do
epiphany	to do
evince	to do
gnome-calculator	to do
gnome-characters	to do
gnome-contacts	to do
gnome-dictionary	to do
gnome-disk-utility	to do
gnome-font-viewer	to do
gnome-logs	to do
gnome-screenshot	to do
gnome-system-log	to do
gnome-system-monitor	to do
gnome-terminal	to do
gucharmap	to do
nautilus	to do
sushi	to do
yelp	to do
core-extras
gnome-backgrounds	to do
gnome-user-share	to do
vino	to do
gnome-user-docs	to do
core-os-services
accountsservice	to do
avahi	to do
bluez	to do
ConsoleKit	to do
cups	to do
dbus	to do
gdm	to do
NetworkManager	to do
PackageKit	to do
polkit	to do
upower	to do
udisks	to do
core-deps
atk	to do
atkmm	to do
cantarell-fonts	to do
caribou	to do
clutter	to do
clutter-gtk	to do
clutter-gst	to do
cogl	to do
desktop-file-utils	to do
expat	to do
folks	to do
gnome-js-common	to do
gtksourceview	to do
gdk-pixbuf	to do
gjs	to do
glib	to do
glibmm	to do
gnome-video-effects	to do
gobject-introspection	to do
gst-plugins-base	to do
gst-plugins-good	to do
gst-plugins-farsight	to do
gstreamer	to do
gtk+	to do
gtk-doc	to do
gtkmm	to do
gudev	to do
hicolor-icon-theme	to do
iso-codes	to do
itstool	to do
intltool	to do
java-gnome	to do
json-glib	to do
libcanberra	to do
libchamplain	to do
libcroco	to do
libgee	to do
libgdata	to do
libgsf	to do
libgtop	to do
libgweather	to do
libmusicbrainz	to do
libnice	to do
libnotify	to do
libpeas	to do
librest	to do
librsvg	to do
libsecret	to do
libsigc++2	to do
libsoup	to do
libxml2	to do
mm-common	to do
p11-kit	to do
pango	to do
pangomm	to do
poppler	to do
pygobject	to do
seed	to do
shared-mime-info	to do
sound-theme-freedesktop	to do
telepathy-glib	to do
telepathy-logger	to do
telepathy-farsight	to do
totem-pl-parser	to do
tracker	to do
vala	to do
vte	to do
webkit	to do
yelp-tools	to do
yelp-xsl	to do
zenity	to do
lcms2	to do
colord	to do
apps
accerciser	to do
aislerot	to do
anjuta	to do
brasero	to do
cheese	to do
devhelp	to do
evolution	to do
file-roller	to do
gedit	to do
ghex	to do
glade	to do
gnome-boxes	to do
gnome-clocks	to do
gnome-color-manager	to do
gnome-devel-docs	to do
gnome-documents	to do
gnome-music	to do
gnome-software	to do
gnome-sound-recorder	to do
gnome-weather	to do
gnome-chess	to do
five-or-more	to do
four-in-a-row	to do
gnome-klotski	to do
gnome-mahjongg	to do
gnome-mines	to do
gnome-nibbles	to do
gnome-robots	to do
gnome-sudoku	to do
gnome-tetravex	to do
iagno	to do
lightsoff	to do
quadrapassel	to do
swell-foop	to do
tali	to do
gnome-nettool	to do
nautilus-sendto	to do
nemiver	to do
orca	to do
rygel	to do
seahorse	to do
totem	to do
vinagre	to do