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.

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:
Last modified: |
2021-12-31 22:57:58 |
Size: |
94K |
MD5: |
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SHA256: |
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GPG signature: |
Last modified: |
2021-12-31 22:57:58 |
Size: |
34K |
MD5: |
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SHA256: |
a64169fdbbb4e100343b90ec5d650c08d376128d5fc2f192029ef0a31e602b44 |
GPG signature: |
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.