803212 - want to release specific telemetry histogram data to a Dev Akhawe (berkeley grad student)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Privacy Graveyard :: Data Release Proposal, task, P2)

Description

[Sid Stamm [:geekboy or :sstamm]]

Priority for your Team:
Medium

Timeframe for Completion:
a week

Goal:
make the web more usable

Business Objective:


Other Party:
Devdatta Akhawe ([e-mail])

Description:
Dev was an intern with us last summer and implemented some telemetry probes that measure how often people encounter security UI stuff.  He wants to use this data in a paper he's writing and I'd like to either give him direct access to the telemetry data, or release some snapshots of just the relevant histograms to him.

His work is documented in bug 767676.  The relevant histogram is called "SECURITY_UI".

Comment 1

[Liz Compton [:liz]]

What kind kind of information is included?

Comment 2

[Stacy Martin [:stacy]]

Here's the link to the de-identification wiki page: 

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/HowTo/Deidentify

Comment 3

[Sid Stamm [:geekboy or :sstamm]]

It's a series of counters that are incremented each time specific security warnings are displayed in Firefox.  So basically a large set of numbers.

The data is a bit more useful if we include more data dimensions (OS or Firefox version).

You can see graphs of some of the data in the telemetry dashboard (go to metrics.mozilla.com, sign in, pick "SECURITY_UI" as the histogram).

Comment 4

[Tom Lowenthal]

Sid, can you specify what dimensionality you want to release? Even though there are probably unique and null buckets, I don't see any privacy or re-identification risk in publication.

Comment 5

[Sid Stamm [:geekboy or :sstamm]]

I'd like to release the histogram data along with channel and OS/version.

Comment 6

[Tom Lowenthal]

r+

Any objection to making this bug public?

Comment 7

[Sid Stamm [:geekboy or :sstamm]]

I think it's fine to make this public.  Tom - I believe you have the access to flip the bit.