[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-28176) Make usage tracking switchable

[Malcolm Davenport (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28176?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=245529#comment-245529 ] 

Malcolm Davenport edited comment on ASTERISK-28176 at 11/22/18 6:58 AM:
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The tracking, as you call it, involves the codec generating a unique ID on first use, and a daily report of the high-water mark for the number of simultaneous engagements of the Opus encoder and/or decoder. It’s hardly nefarious, and because we don’t know anything about you beyond the unique ID that your system generates for this one purpose, not personally identifiable.
It satisfies our requirement that we have an understanding of the absolute usage of the codec. This requirement exists, as I previously intimated, due to the legal system of the United States. 

The software can be safely used outside of the United States. If you feel that the conditions of its reporting are not safe, that is your interpretation, that you are free to make, and you are free not to use it at all. 

Here is the original blog post announcement that details it:
http://www.digium.com/blog/2016/09/30/opus-in-asterisk/

I am closing this issue report again. 



was (Author: mdavenport):
The tracking, as you call it, involves the codec generating a unique ID on first use, and a daily report of the high-water mark for the number of simultaneous engagements of the Opus encoder and/or decoder. It’s hardly nefarious, and because we don’t know anything about you beyond the unique ID that your system generates for this one purpose, not personally identifiable.
It satisfies our requirement that we have an understanding of the absolute usage of the codec. This requirement exists, as I previously intimated, due to the legal system of the United States. 

The software can be safely used outside of the United States. If you feel that the conditions of its reporting are not safe, that is your interpretation, that you are free to make, and you are free not to use it at all. 

I am closing this issue report again. 


> Make usage tracking switchable
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ASTERISK-28176
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28176
>             Project: Asterisk
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: None
>          Components: Codecs/codec_opus
>    Affects Versions: 13.0.2
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Sven Joerns
>
> I'm not quite sure if it's true, but in the README from Asterisk 
> (http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_opus/asterisk-13.0/x86-64/README) states that the Opus codec always sends anonymous usage data to an Asterisk community server.
> In the times of the European data protection regulation this is an avoidable problem.
> Therefore, the usage tracking should at least be switchable off.



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