After the huge pressure exercised by the community, Canonical has implemented an option to stop the online dash searches.
We all remember the day when Mark Shuttelworth announced that Ubuntu 12.10 will include an Amazon lens and that it will be integrated into the Home lens.
A lot of people have questioned this ... (read more)
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.
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)
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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.
As the Ubuntu 12.10 privacy blunder continues, more and more people find that integrating online searches into Unity Dash has a lot more ramifications than initially thought.
Etienne Perot, an Ubuntu fan with a little more experience than the average users has shown that Mark Shuttleworth statements about the p... (read more)
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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Pidgin is a graphical, modular instant messaging client capable of using multiple networks at once.
Just one day ago, Unity lens for pidgin released with the ability to search through Pidgin online accounts by typing in Unity Dash, it displays matched online buddies from one’s list.
To install this Unity Lens, add this ppa by executing this command in terminal(for now, support Ubuntu 12.04
Starting with Ubuntu 12.10, Unity Dash will also return answers from Amazon, according to the founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth.
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, has finally listened to critics and EFF and said that the much controversial online search feature of Dash will be disabled by default in Ubuntu 13.04, which will be released later this month.
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