Canonical wants ubuntu to collect user information

Canonical plans to make a change to Ubuntu to make the operating system collect information about users' computers, both during and after the installation process, something their users will certainly not like.

Ubuntu will send data about users' computers

This new change would not be well received by users because it is the kind of thing that Microsoft does or did with its Windows 10 and that has been the subject of much controversy over the past few years. Will Cooke, Ubuntu desktop manager at Canonical, explained that this is because the company wants to work on the items that matter most to users of its Ubuntu operating system, something that the collected data would help with.

Information collected from users will include the version of Ubuntu being installed, basic specifications of the computer's processor, memory, disk size, GPU, screen resolution, details of third-party software, and the time required for installation among other information.

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Information about the location selected by the user will also be collected during Ubuntu installation, no IP address information will be collected. This means that the collected data will be anonymized and transferred via HTTPS for security reasons.

To allow all this, a check box will be added during the installation of the system asking if the user wants to send diagnostic information to help improve the system, something that would be checked by default. All the collected data, by the way, would be made public, allowing everyone to see the percentages of Ubuntu users using specific hardware.

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