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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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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 |
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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 |
to do |
|
cups |
to do |
dbus |
to do |
gdm |
to do |
to do |
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to do |
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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 |