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GNOME Project Releases a New Telemetry Data Collection Tool (UPDATED)

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2022,

updated Sep 15, 2022

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Although telemetry (the collection of data and measurements for the purpose of monitoring) is a rather touchy subject, especially for those who value their privacy), the GNOME foundation has announced it will be adding a telemetry data collection tool to the desktop environment.

Before anyone panics, this data will be 100% anonymous and will be used only to improve the GNOME desktop environment by informing various decisions for the future of the software. Those decisions will help to inform the GNOME Foundation where resources should be best used and how to better help users.

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UPDATE

2 and a half weeks later they are almost done.

gnome-info-collect closing soon - Form and Function

↺ gnome-info-collect closing soon - Form and Function

> There has been a fantastic response to gnome-info-collect since Vojtěch announced it three weeks ago. To date we’ve had over 2,200 responses. That’s amazing! Thanks to everyone who has run the tool.

> We now have enough data to perform the analyses we want. As a result, it’s time to close data collection. This will happen next Monday, 19 September. On that day, the data collection server will be turned off.

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