Privacy Indicator¶

Privacy Indicator is a notification area applet (application indicator) for the top panel of Ubuntu?s Unity desktop environment.

The goal of Privacy Indicator is to make it easy it change settings that influence the user’s privacy or the automatic collection of data and to delete automatically collected data.

Status¶ As far as I know there aren’t any critical bugs in Privacy Indicator. But there still may be some bugs or other problems. If you find one please file a bug report

Requirements¶ Privacy Indicator needs the “Unity” desktop environment. It needs the following Ubuntu packages: python3 (>= 3.6)

python3-zeitgeist

gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1

gir1.2-glib-2.0

gir1.2-gtk-3.0

gir1.2-glib-2.0

python3-gi

python3-xdg

python3-pkg-resources

unity (>=7.0) If you install the .deb package from the PPA this packages are automatically installed.

License¶ You can use Privacy Indicator under the conditions of GPL v3 or later. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Download¶ Privacy Indicator is available from the PPA (“Personal Package Archive”) ppa:diesch/stable for all current versions of Ubuntu. If you add this PPA to your software sources Ubuntu’s Update manager will automatically install newer versions of Privacy Indicator when they are available. If you don’t know how to do this see this explanation. If you rather want to download the files manually here there are: indicator-privacy-0.7.tar.gz Last modified: 2020-05-23 11:41:58 Size: 94K MD5: 90553761208fabefb42a2d2eed391ded SHA256: ccdbac3e46b5d91eedd86117fd384bde9a2b3e14d1b5b82662746d308f938a06 GPG signature: indicator-privacy-0.7.tar.gz.gpg indicator-privacy_0.7_all.deb Last modified: 2020-05-23 11:41:58 Size: 34K MD5: b4f9bbc2f753d32ef3fcd0fb96f7e144 SHA256: a64169fdbbb4e100343b90ec5d650c08d376128d5fc2f192029ef0a31e602b44 GPG signature: indicator-privacy_0.7_all.deb.gpg After you installed Privacy Indicator it will be started automatically when you next log in. To start Privacy Indicator from the command line use the command indicator-privacy .