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How to opt out from any collected data? This surviellance is not acceptable.

Open barshag opened this issue 1 year ago • 7 comments

barshag avatar Apr 27 '24 16:04 barshag

Read the docs - https://docs.crewai.com/telemetry/Telemetry/#data-collected-includes

theCyberTech avatar Apr 29 '24 00:04 theCyberTech

I have to agree with @barshag, there needs to be a way to totally disable it.

Perhaps instead of hard wiring AgentOps in, a telemetry provider interface could be swapped in. A default DevNullTelemetryProvider should be the default, By all means provide an optional AgentOpsTelemetryProvider but don't force it.

CrewAI now depends on AgentOps and you can't opt out of AgentOps TOS. This will cause complications within corporate environments for sure. https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/agentops/blob/main/TOS.md

Can this be rolled back until another solution is provided?

b1ochicken avatar Apr 29 '24 01:04 b1ochicken

Crew Telemetry is disabled by default - you have to opt-in

AgentOps is an optional module, as far as Im aware there is no requirement to install this unless you want it

theCyberTech avatar Apr 29 '24 01:04 theCyberTech

You do have to include AgentOps now as the crew.py, agents.py, tool_usage.py, now all "import agentops" otherwise you'll get a dependency error.

b1ochicken avatar Apr 29 '24 02:04 b1ochicken

We are rolling back agentsops integration for now, it is on a RC so it's not out on a proper version only for people manually installing that specific version.

The crew telemetry is actually enabled but anonymous by default, maybe - you have to opt-in to make it non-anonymous. We are also putting out our own TOS.

joaomdmoura avatar Apr 29 '24 02:04 joaomdmoura

I think you can get Crewai, python and OS versions stats from pypi directly

piratos avatar Apr 29 '24 05:04 piratos

The crew telemetry is actually enabled but anonymous by default, maybe - you have to opt-in to make it non-anonymous. We are also putting out our own TOS.

**** Why?****

  • Even Microsoft allow you to opt-out from annonymous by default (on windows)!
  • This was meant to be community effort project and now it's all about survelliance to gain benefits from usages.
  • This is wrong practical of any Open-source project ethic. You can see it in NextJS or any other big project.

If one is willing to give you data fine, but why make it mandatory for all of us that our privacy is so important for us?

barshag avatar Apr 29 '24 14:04 barshag

This issue is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days.

github-actions[bot] avatar Aug 17 '24 12:08 github-actions[bot]

But it's still relevnt

barshag avatar Aug 17 '24 13:08 barshag