Gnome's privacy settings claims that no application can access $foo if particular device has been turned off when in reality that is not the case. Simply install application like cheese from fedora repositories ( same thing probably applies to a browser directly installed from some vendor like Google Chrome ( camera/location services/mic )) then go to settings --> privacy and disable for example the camera then run cheese and observe that the application can access the camera just fine O_O.
Fedora/Gnome should not be outright lying to it's consumer that their privacy is being protected and that no other application can access a device when in reality that's not the case.
See:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/741
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018158
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/851
Interesting it's a known issue and quite frankly I'm amazed that it was not a release blocker sooner since Fedora/Gnome is violating user expectations.
Given that Lenovo is now selling it's hw with Fedora pre-installed is it made aware of issues like this?
I agree that it would be good to try and get the upstream MR landed. But please, let's cool it with the outrage.
The upstream MR has been merged.
Metadata Update from @aday: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
The same people who fain outrage at such 'privacy' offenses will complain when the sandboxing of a flatpak inconveniences them a little... you can't have it both. If we want to make ironclad promises about privacy, we have to provide an appstore experience and prevent unsandboxed apps from being installed.
Metadata Update from @mclasen: - Issue status updated to: Open (was: Closed)
Hi Matthias, did you intend to reopen this issue?
I think this was reopened by mistake.
Metadata Update from @catanzaro: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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