Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org>]

    Hi,
    
    Privacy policy makes sense for software you quote, eithr because
    they are closd-code, or because thy are in the cloud and users send
    data to servers, so it is important to know what do this data once
    sent.
    
    Debian provides free software and does not support non-free one even
    if they exist in the Debian infra. They provide tools to be
    installed on your computer. So when you install a program in Debian,
    you can check the code, but more important, you dont send data to an
    external source.
    
    Then I dont think Debian needs a privacy policy. Neither Debian, nor
    the packages themselves collect the user data. And it would be a
    problem to do this, from the socail contract.
    
    I think we can consider having a thought about it if some program
    collects data. For a non free program, this should be in its licene
    or on th websie of its provider.
    
    Regards
    
    
    
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL

Le 08/06/2019 à 20:02, npdflr a écrit :

Hello,

How can one check the privacy policy for the packages/softwares (which can be free or non-free) installed in Debian?

If one is downloading and installing a package from a website then he/she can check the privacy policy link on that website.

Example:

-- Skype (https://www.skype.com/en/get-skype/) which has privacy policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement

-- Go programming language (https://golang.org/) which has privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

But if one is downloading a package (which may also install dependency packages) via terminal or synaptic package manager then how can one check the privacy policy of that package?

Thank you.