Open grahamperrin opened 2 years ago
I'll remove this obsolete option in the next commit.
Thank you!
Despite the privacy statement saying "Private information (including the username, machine's hostname, IP addresses, MAC addresses, UUIDs and serial numbers) is NOT uploaded to the database.", the recommended probe (sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload
) still collects and uploads excessive private and personally identifiable information, including but not limited to the partition table, network configuration and a full list of installed packages!
This was indicated nowhere on https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto and the contrary was implied. I sent you an E-mail requesting deletion of my probe under the GDPR right to removal, but you are blocking E-mails from Proton Mail addresses, so I can't even exercise my GDPR rights without being forced to create a GitHub account.
Please unblock Proton Mail so I can privately tell you which probe to delete. Please delete that probe. And please update https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto to reflect which private information sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload
DOES upload to the database.
@lvc @linuxhw @bsdhw
See also https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe/issues/161#issuecomment-2066022869
From
hw-probe -help
:Expected
With general option
-probe
, logs not related to hardware must not be collected.Actual result
Inappropriate collection of information about things such as installed software and locale.