On 21/08/2020 14:01, Mike McClain wrote:
I took a look at ~/.local/share/.recently-used.xbel and see that
not only is it tracking what I do but claims to be the property of
freedesktop.org. Is there any way to see if this is being sent to them
and who might they be selling this info to?
It's bad enough that Google and so many others care to spy on us
but it's really uncomfortable to think my own computer is doing it.
This is worse than Big Brother.
freedesktop.org is the organisation that maintains standards for filesystem layouts and some configuration file formats so that different applications and Linux distributions can use the same directory structure, launchers, and so on, to make life easier for users and application developers. They never receive user data. The tag <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org";> in recently-used.xbel just means that they define the meaning of the enclosed tags.
Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand