[Bug 583003] Re: There is no way to tell ubuntu-bug what information to send (it violates users privacy)

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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 107103 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107103

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  There is no way to tell ubuntu-bug what information to send (it
  violates users privacy)

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  This bug is closely related to
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/132800 but since
  that was closed and it was about a very specific piece of information
  I'll open a new one.

  There is no way to exclude sensitive information from a bug report
  using ubuntu-bug, and is a real PITA to report a bug via web directly
  (you have to search the magic URL, find the source package for the
  problematic package and then edit the magic URL with the source
  package).

  To report a bug to Ubuntu you either have to sacrifice your privacy or
  go through a painful set of steps, none of them seems tempting for me,
  so I tend to avoid reporting bugs to Ubuntu.

  I understand that is hard to give a naive user a lot of options, but
  it would be enough to:

  1) State very clearly that the users privacy *will* be compromised,
  *always*, any information you send, becomes public and in the general
  case it shouldn't. If I want to report a spelling error, all you need
  is what the reporter of the bug have to say (and the version of the
  package at most). Everything else, is violating users privacy, making
  public a lot of information that makes no sense. See this very same
  bug report (reported via ubuntu-bug). How many information provided by
  ubuntu-bug is needed to understand/fix this issue?

  2) Add an "Advanced" button (or whatever you want to name it) where
  you can select what to include or exclude from the bug report.

  I hope you address it soon since I think is a very serious issue. As
  time passes I have less and less desires to report bugs when using
  Ubuntu (being mostly a Debian user I would love if you adopted report-
  bug, but I guess that won't happen :S).

  Thanks.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: apport 1.13.3-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: ed35fdf4b543543c92b16453fb132835
  CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
  Date: Wed May 19 15:23:34 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=es_AR.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apport

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