bwoodruff
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My name is Ben Woodruff and I work for 1Password.
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Comment · 3 years ago
If better data had been available to us, we would've been able to make a more informed decision. We've decided that privacy-preserving telemetry is one of the ways worth exploring to improve that data for the next time. If it is something we roll out to customers, customers will have the choice to participate. We will not collect any telemetry data unless we've obtained consent.
Comment · 3 years ago
Nobody was questioning how popular the Apple Watch is. The question was how many people were using it to access their 1Password data. The evidence that we had at the time suggested very few. Better data would've helped us make a better judgement.
Comment · 3 years ago
1Password for iOS does not use Electron. It uses Apple's SwiftUI. Our iOS app is what contains the Apple Watch app.
The point was if we'd had telemetry while prioritizing this work, we would've known it was something many people were actually using. The little data we had showed that was not likely the case. Had we known, we would've prioritized differently.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm sorry to hear that has been your experience with 1Password. I appreciate the comment. I've shared that feedback with our design team.
Comment · 3 years ago
Happy to help. In addition, while we're in the early stages and this design is likely to change, it may help to visualize how we're thinking about this process:
https://bucket.agilebits.com/ben/telemetry-consent-draft.png
Comment · 3 years ago
You're not going to have to hunt around in the settings to consent to telemetry, no, but we're also not going to collect without consent. We're in the early stages, so this is subject to change. Still, our design team shared this mockup that may help visualize the direction we plan on taking if we move forward with a customer-facing rollout of telemetry.
https://bucket.agilebits.com/ben/telemetry-consent-draft.png
Comment · 3 years ago
The designs for what the screen will look like have not been completed yet. I couldn't say exactly what the language will be. From what I've seen thus far it will be clear that there is a choice to be made, but the default selection will be to enable telemetry.
Here is a draft of what we're considering: https://bucket.agilebits.com/ben/telemetry-consent-draft.png
Does that help clarify what the experience will be?
Comment · 3 years ago
I was an advocate for putting out the blog post early, despite the fact that we're currently only testing this with our employees. As you say, we knew it would be something the community would have questions about, rightfully so, and wanted to be as transparent as possible.
-Ben, 1Password
Comment · 3 years ago
It tells the extension which item you've selected to fill. It isn't possible to use the Open & Fill feature without it. If you navigate to the website in your web browser and then fill from 1Password's inline menu, instead of using Open & Fill, you can avoid it. Hope that helps. Please drop us an email if you have further questions: support at 1password dot com
-Ben, 1Password
Comment · 3 years ago
I love that idea. We'd have to be super careful with the de-identification of associated data (which we're doing anyway), but having automation behind figuring out filling failures could be a huge boon. I'll share the thought with the team.
-Ben, 1Password
Comment · 3 years ago
I wrote more about the consent aspect here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35706897
tl;dr If we roll this out to customers, we'll be asking for consent, and won't be collecting telemetry data unless we have it.
-Ben, 1Password
Comment · 3 years ago
I wrote more about the consent aspect here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35706897
tl;dr If we roll this out to customers, we'll be asking for consent, and won't be collecting telemetry data unless we have it.
-Ben, 1Password
Comment · 3 years ago
I wrote more about the consent aspect here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35706897
tl;dr If we roll this out to customers, we'll be asking for consent, and won't be collecting telemetry data unless we have it.
-Ben, 1Password
Comment · 3 years ago
I wrote more about the consent aspect here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35706897
tl;dr If we roll this out to customers, we'll be asking for consent, and won't be collecting telemetry data unless we have it.
-Ben, 1Password
Comment · 3 years ago
I wrote more about the consent aspect here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35706897
tl;dr If we roll this out to customers, we'll be asking for consent, and won't be collecting telemetry data unless we have it.
-Ben, 1Password