Comment 58 for bug 1073114

See this: Ubuntu Shopping Lens (Scopes) Declared Legal in the UK and Most Likely in the European Union

http://m.softpedia.com/ubuntu-shopping-lens-scopes-declared-legal-in-uk-and-most-likely-in-european-union-453843.html

http://attheedgeoftime.blogspot.ro/2014/08/ubuntu-shopping-lens-deemed-legal-by-uk.html

It seems that the core of the reasonning of the UK Information Commissioner's Office (IOC) reads this way:

"In particular, we consider the (first time displayed, and later ‘iconised’) legal notice added by Canonical Ltd to the bottom right corner of the Dash, when Amazon searches were introduced, to have reasonably ensured compliance with the DPA for the introduction of those searches.

We also consider Canonical Ltd to have made reasonably available to Ubuntu users suitable information to assist people in limiting searches undertaken, or in removing the feature involved from their installation. "

White all due respect, this reasonning seems pretty weak to me, for these 2 reasons:

1) The "magical" legal notice is no longer in the dash (since 13.10) and is now hidden (and still untranslated) in the obscure "Diagnostics" tab, in the "Security and Privacy" panel;

2) I may have missed something but I really don't see where/how "Canonical Ltd to have made reasonably available to Ubuntu users suitable information to assist people in limiting searches undertaken (but I aknowledge that they did the right thing to allow users to remove/switch off the feature involved from their installation).

That said, IMHO as a really great FLOSS project, Ubuntu (and its sponsor, Canonical), shoud do more than look for minimal compliance with privacy laws/regulations in some contries/regions. It should try to be up to higher standards and target EFF recommandations compliance.