Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com
by SamReidHughes on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:52PM
(#21392960)
Let me make it clear for you then:
> Their CFO showed that he has little regard for the privacy of their users.
Their users are companies, who can put on their big boy pants and decide what they think of Gitlab earnestly gathering usage information, not deep personal secrets, that it uses to help it improve its own product so that it can better serve the customer.
Throwing this all under the same category of "privacy" that one might use for private content -- the content of emails, the content of messages, copyrighted material, trade secrets, and the like -- as if this is a great moral issue, is just not a clear-minded way of operating.
Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com
by entropic on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:56PM
(#21393666)
People store copyrighted code and trade secrets in their repositories with gitlab, if the third party tracker is compromised those secrets can also be compromised.
> Their CFO showed that he has little regard for the privacy of their users.
Their users are companies, who can put on their big boy pants and decide what they think of Gitlab earnestly gathering usage information, not deep personal secrets, that it uses to help it improve its own product so that it can better serve the customer.
Throwing this all under the same category of "privacy" that one might use for private content -- the content of emails, the content of messages, copyrighted material, trade secrets, and the like -- as if this is a great moral issue, is just not a clear-minded way of operating.