Laura Arjona Reina

"Quit logging! Or data minimization in Debian" by Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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Yesterday I watched Daniel Kahn Gillmor's #DebConf14 talk “Quit logging! Or data minimization in Debian” (video here). I liked it very much, many people participated and a lot of questions and ideas arose.

I like that the Debian community cares about how to improve the sysadmin toolbox to better serve the end users (not only “having a running service with no problems and getting issues solved”, but also “avoiding collateral damages of living in a [meta]data-greedy world”).

Another thing that I liked is that they talked about technology-solutions (log encryption, or hashing personal identificable data when logging, more granularity in log levels…) but also about a set of 'human' actions that can be taken too: review what do we log now, reduce the amount of unneeded data that we gather and the amount of time that is stored in the computer, review the default configurations in Debian packages, and other.

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I've not watched the video yet but plan to. I see one bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759382 that doesn't seem to have gotten any traction. Is there a data minimization project like there is say the reproducible builds project?

Mike Linksvayer at 2015-07-21T02:23:22Z