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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.

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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.

Contribute

Bug reports, suggestions, ideas, …

For bug reports or feature requests please use the bug tracker at Launchpad

Please use English or German language if possible.

Thank you for helping to improve Privacy Indicator!

Translations

If you want to help to translate Privacy Indicator to other languages go to the translation page at Launchpad

To see the list of people who contributed to the translations you are using go to Privacy Indicator –> About –> Credits .

Thanks to all contributors! You really rock!

Questions and answers

If you have questions about Privacy Indicator go to the “Answers” page at Launchpad. If you want you can help to answer questions there, too.

You may use German or English language.

Source code

The source code is available from the Bazaar repository at Launchpad

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:

2021-12-31 22:57:58

Size:

94K

MD5:

90553761208fabefb42a2d2eed391ded

SHA256:

ccdbac3e46b5d91eedd86117fd384bde9a2b3e14d1b5b82662746d308f938a06

GPG signature:

indicator-privacy-0.7.tar.gz.gpg

indicator-privacy_0.7_all.deb

Last modified:

2021-12-31 22:57:58

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.

Icon

The icon of Privacy Indicator is based on an icon from the Gemicon icon set by Turqois.