Bug#1001647: visidata phones home

Christoph Berg myon at debian.org
Mon Mar 3 14:06:35 GMT 2025


Re: Anja
> My understanding is that "legitimate interests" requires a straightforward
> opt-out mechanism (which VisiData does provide), but doesn't require
> opt-in. We're going to ensure we meet legitimate interests compliance.

The GDPR mandates privacy by default, so opt-in unless you have good
reasons otherwise.

But whatever the GDPR says, Debian wants no software to call home
unless it's for really good reasons. Please consider following project
best practices.

Christoph



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