Besides being security theater, "someone might change my Privacy
settings to make stuff show up in the Dash" doesn't make sense as a
threat worth protecting against individually. If an untrustworthy person
has access to your computer for long enough to change your Privacy
settings, there are hundreds of more effective things that person could
do -- for example, look at your browser history, search your offline
e-mail, browse LibreOffice's "Open Recent" submenu, or just steal your
computer entirely. If you don't want someone to be able to do any of
those things, then set an account password, lock your session, and use
full-disk encryption and/or a laptop lock if necessary.
The duplicate reports bug 974885 and bug 1077621, slightly more
sensibly, complain that someone can open your Privacy settings and see
*directly* a list of what you are trying to hide, rather than waiting
for those things to pop up in the Dash. But that's just the nature of
listing secrets. For example, if you want Christmas gifts you're buying
to be a surprise, there are two things you need to keep hidden: the
gifts, and the shopping list. In the same way, if you use the Privacy
settings to help save you from embarrassment, there are two things you
still need to keep out of sight: the embarrassing things themselves, and
the settings panel that lists them. To do that, the solutions are the
same as before: an account password, locking your session, and so on.
** Changed in: activity-log-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection
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