a proposal to add opt-out telemetry in fedora is being discussed on fedora forums

sherlockandghibli@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml – 117 points – F40 Change Request: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)
discussion.fedoraproject.org

the proposal is from a red-hat team member and is proposing addition of "privacy-respecting" telemetry. here's the link to the hyperkitty thread

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A pop-up with a message "This website uses cookies to function. The compliance people asked us to tell you."

Really? How am I supposed to trust these guys with my data, when they show me a pop-up like that? I guess that this data is anonymous only because otherwise the telemetry would need to be opt-out… oh wait, they explicitly said that:

That said, Fedora Legal has determined that if we collect any personally-identifiable data, the entire metrics system must be opt-in. Since we are only interested in opt-out metrics due to the low value of opt-in metrics, we must accordingly never collect any personally-identifiable data.

That's one of the worst cookie banners I've ever seen

It's completely useless. If they don't collect personal data, then they don't have to show a banner. Bad faith compliance with GDPR (including "the GDPR made us show this banner") should be punished more heavily.