Comment by yndoendo
1 month ago
Consent is the key issue binding all. There is complete lack of consent when there is no opt-out and great degradation when the default is opt-out. Trust is the only means to consent.
1) Opt-in, Opt-survey, Opt-out is the only ternary to build trust. Survey is an active validator of trust and assists in low-bandwith communication. Question should be presented to the end user the first time using it or the next time the application starts and this feature was added.
2) Provide the exact analytical information you want to the end user so they can parse it too. The means to self-evaluate allowed information to be shared with providing the reports or views improves trust.
3) Known privilege to trust leads to more consent. Having priority support with features and bugs could be aligned with those that Opt-in. Analytical history / performance may assisting in solving the recent bug that was reporter.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, and all apply ambiguity to their analytical sharing without details, not how they use it and can abuse it. Most don't even provide an Opt-out. I don't trust these organizations but I must engage with them through my life. I don't have to use Facebook or Twitter and don't. I accept the Steam survey.
RFC with an agreed upon analytical standard could be step to solving the latch of analytical information the open source community would benefit from. Both parties consenting to agreed upon communication.
*My Point of View; meta data is still personal data. Without the user the data and the meta data would not existing. Since the end user is the entropy to meta data they own the meta and the data.
Yes - I understand but in many (or even most) cases, opt-in makes the data worthless. There's literally no point collecting it.
Building and growing trust makes the data less worthless to the point of being useful. More people will opt-in when they trust the company / the developer(s). Opt-in without a push, universally trust building in the community, keeps leading to this worthless data.
The only way I see moving forward would be community driven effort to build the trust through said means and or other ideas. This not an easy problem to solve and would take time.
*Even the USA agencies like the CDC and FBI must utilize bias data for the decision making since not all states and organizations self-report.