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Privacy Policy? #176

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VagrantVulpine opened this issue Apr 23, 2022 · 3 comments
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Privacy Policy? #176

VagrantVulpine opened this issue Apr 23, 2022 · 3 comments

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@VagrantVulpine
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I can't find any statement - even a casual/non-legal one - relating to privacy on here or the Tencent NCNN GitHub page. As I understand it this program can operate completely offline once installed so I'm probably just being a worrywart. Still, since I am in fact a worrywart about data privacy (especially given Tencent's abysmal privacy policies and history, and what their NCNN page features...) I figured I'd ask about this to be safe before installing. Unfortunately I don't have the know-how to check the code myself, and being FOSS doesn't make something's approach to privacy good or safe by default.

So can anyone answer if there's telemetry or any non-local NCNN data gathering/usage that is part of this software? As far as I can see there isn't and I'm worrying over nothing, but again, I don't have the know-how to be sure.

As a note: It may be good to add a section in the README for people like me who want/need a clear statement about privacy issues, even if it seem obvious or like common sense. Some may think that since telemetry/data gathering is not mentioned anywhere as a feature or issue, then of course it must not be one. But IMO it's better to be openly clear about it not being included rather than making it something people have to assume.

@AffSeda
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AffSeda commented Apr 27, 2022

There should be no network activity from this software at all, ever - I've checked from both the local system and a server it passes through if that helps. You should be able to monitor this with e.g. network statistics in a stats tool (e.g. Conky) or via a router between your system and the internet.

I run it on Debian GNU/Linux and actively look for unexplained traffic, never seen any.

@Nova-Aurora
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I will admit that I haven't read the entire source code, but at least within the CLI code there were no networking or data gathering at all.

@UiharuKazari2008
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You dont need a privacy statement for local software that does not access the internet, thats pretty standard

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