update the package to automatically start running centinel in the background about centinel

[rpanah]

I'm inclined to think that we should force users to opt-out [...].

@ben-jones Give them the option to opt out, sure. But why should we "force" anyone to opt-out?

[ben-jones]

@rpanah, what I mean is that as soon as the user installs the package it will start running experiments and uploading results. If the user doesn't want that, then they will need to make the extra effort to do that. We are saying the same thing, but "force" was probably a poor word choice.

[Ethcelon]

Maybe the right wording would be 'we should't force users to opt-in' ?

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Ben Jones [email protected] wrote:

@rpanah https://github.com/rpanah, what I mean is that as soon as the
user installs the package it will start running experiments and uploading
results. If the user doesn't want that, then they will need to make the
extra effort to do that. We are saying the same thing, but "force" was
probably a poor word choice.

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[rpanah]

We can ask them if they want opt-in, or we can make the installation process warn them that they are automatically sending results and show them how to opt-out. I'm more for the latter.

[phillipa]

… we did have this nifty “informed consent” process which is approved by our IRB. We need to adhere to that.

Ie., you install centinel, you visit our Web site and do informed consent, then your client comes to life/starts doing things.

On Sep 23, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Abbas Razaghpanah [email protected] wrote:

We can ask them if they want opt-in, or we can make the installation process warn them that they are automatically sending results and show them how to opt-out. I'm more for the latter.

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[ben-jones]

@phillipa, sorry for starting this discussion, because you are correct, informed consent drives an opt-in protocol. We will force the user to do informed consent before they can run or upload measurements

[ben-jones]

To summarize,

1. we are going to create a command line argument to do the informed consent
2. we are going to create cli argument to add the crontab entries (for now we are going to focus on linux distros)
3. we will make a wiki page with these instructions for users.
   Therefore, I am going to spin these into separate issues and close this one (especially since it is poorly named)