documentation_complete: true

title: 'Disable Metrics Reporting'

description: "Whenever Chromium crashes, it sends its usage and crash-related data to Google.\nThis should be disabled by setting <tt>MetricsReportingEnabled</tt> to \n<tt>false</tt> 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.

severity: unknown

identifiers:
    cce: ""

references:
    disa: ""
    nist: ""
    stigid: DTBC0026

ocil_clause: 'it is not disabled'

ocil: |-
    To verify that metrics reporting is disabled, run the following command:
    <pre>$ grep MetricsReportingEnabled /etc/chromium/policies/managed/*.json</pre>
    The output should contain:
    <pre>"MetricsReportingEnabled": false,</pre>
