[m_ram]

The privacy issues were discussed in Sept. 2012, a month before Quantal was released.

22-Sept: Slashdot thread

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-n...

23-Sept: HN thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558049

23-Sept: Shuttleworth blog post

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182

[AsymetricCom]

>discussed.

that's a different concept than addressed.