It seems Canonical‘s eleventh hour rush to address user concerns regarding Amazon.com search integration into Ubuntu 12.10 may not have been as successful as the company presumably hoped. Despite the changes, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a statement and list of demands for further disclosure from Canonical.
Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager at Canonical Ltd, has shared some insight on a future option that will be implemented in Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).
The current state of affairs for Canonical's Ubuntu 12.10 soon-to-be-launched operating system is not good.
A lot of people expressed security concerns about the integration of an Amazon lens into the Home lens in Ubuntu 12.10, but Canonical is making sure that users’ privacy will be respected.
Mark Shuttleworh, founder of Canonical, tried to address some of the problems that were mentioned by users, but the backlash of this new feature in Ubuntu 12.10 has caused quite a stir in the community.
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Canonical has just posted an interesting update regarding the integration of Lenses in Unity Dash and their role in making Ubuntu a complete and global solution. In Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Canonical has introduced an online search in the Home lens and everyone went berserk. Anticipating the interest in the evolu... (read more)
Canonical is making a push with Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and they are not pulling any punches, especially when it comes to promoting the operating system. Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) was launched today, October 18th, and, as usual, people flocked to Canonical official website to download the latest version.
Canonical, through Jon Melamut, announced on September 20th that they will plan to implement support for Secure Boot in the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system. Therefore, after a discussion with Free Software Foundation, Canonical decided to drop the EFILinux bootloader implementation in favor of the GRUB2 ... (read more)
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Mark Shuttleworth explains info entered in dash sent to Canonical servers and on to Facebook and Amazon.
So to clarify: even if you disable shopping lens, your data - through dash is recorded by Canonical and available for paying third parties. I mistakenly thought the personal data recording was local to the user, for searches on your own system.
Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) is almost upon us, but it seems that one of the anticipated problems with the Shopping lens will not be resolved.
The new Ubuntu 12.10 will feature a Shopping lens. What could possibly go wrong, especially when we know that the Internet is such a lovely and safe place?
The Shopping lens can be used to ... (read more)
Canonical will launch tomorrow, October 18th, its latest Debian-based operating system, dubbed Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).
Ubuntu 12.10 will be an important test for Canonical, mostly because of the controversy regarding its Shopping and Amazon lenses.
“The Unseeded Universe Final Freeze is now in effect.
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