Security and privacy

One of the defining features of Kate is its security and privacy-conscious design. When you run a Kate cartridge you have full control and knowledge over what it can do to your device and your data.

This section explains what you can expect from Kate and the cartridges you run in a more informative way, but without getting too much into technical details. It’s focused on players’ feelings of safety and material harm.

• Safety philosophy
  • Installing games, safely
  • Running a game, safely
  • Knowing you can play a game
  • Keeping your data safe
  • Feeling safe by knowing what’s happening
  • Trust, but safely
• Sandboxing
  • Cartridge sandboxing
  • Component sandboxing
  • Process sandboxing
  • Native sandboxing
  • OS sandboxing
• Privacy policy
  • The web-based emulator
  • Running Kate offline
  • Locally collected data
• Trust and consent
  • The resource indicator bar
  • Background actions
  • Warning icons
  • Resource icons
  • Note on non-visual cues
• Audit logs
  • Storage usage and retention
  • Removing sensitive data