Bug Description

See this from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a well respected "international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization" (as described on Wikipedia): https:/ /www.eff. org/deeplinks/ 2012/10/ privacy- ubuntu- 1210-amazon- ads-and- data-leaks

Obviously, despite some improvements that have came late in the 12.10 development cycle, there are still serious privacy concerns with the unity shopping lens. To be more precise, here are the main problems to be fixed according to EFF:

- Disable "Include online search results" by default.

- Explain in detail what Canonical does with search queries and IP addresses, how long it stores them, and in what circumstances it gives them to third parties.

- Make the Search Results tab of the Privacy settings let users toggle on and off specific online search results, as some users might want Amazon products in their search results, but never anything from Facebook.

Here is another related bug:

#1055952 Direct data leaking to Amazon: https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ unity-lens- shopping/ +bug/1055952

ProblemType: Bug

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10

Package: unity-lens-shopping 6.8.0-0ubuntu1

Uname: Linux 3.5.6-030506- generic x86_64

NonfreeKernelMo dules: wl

ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6

Architecture: amd64

Date: Tue Oct 30 06:35:38 2012

InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-02-12 (260 days ago)

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)

MarkForUpload: True

SourcePackage: unity-lens-shopping

UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-28 (31 days ago)