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Disable Metrics Reporting

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Whenever Chromium crashes, it sends its usage and crash-related data to Google. This should be disabled by setting MetricsReportingEnabled to false in the Chromium policy file.

Rationale

Anonymous reporting of usage and crash-related data is sent to Google. A crash report could contain sensitive information from the computer's memory.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_chromium_disable_metrics_reporting
Severity
Unknown
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Shell Script

if ! grep -q MetricsReportingEnabled /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json; then
   sed -i -e '/{/a \  "'MetricsReportingEnabled'": 'false',' /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json
else
   sed -i -e 's/\"'MetricsReportingEnabled'.*/\"'MetricsReportingEnabled'\": 'false',/g' /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome_stig_policy.json
fi