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Originally posted by RahulSundaram View PostYou have no idea what you are talking about. It is not illegal to collect UUID information since it has no personally identifiable information and especially since it was a bug and has been fixed several years back. Also update tools are launched automatically by the desktop environment session and users don't really consent to that update query explicitly.
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Originally posted by intellivision View PostMost users invoke those applications with the knowledge that it does send data to other sources for the purposes of function, and explicit consent is given. Here, Google shipped Chromium with data mining software without informing the user, and any information collected as a result should be considered collected without consent and illegal, similarly to Google's unencrypted WiFi data mining ordeal.
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Originally posted by RahulSundaram View PostI disagree. It really depends on the data. Otherwise yum or apt querying the mirror list for updates can be called spyware.
Here, Google shipped Chromium with data mining software without informing the user, and any information collected as a result should be considered collected without consent and illegal, similarly to Google's unencrypted WiFi data mining ordeal.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostYum or apt obviously have consent, as you explicitly call them to do so...
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Yum or apt obviously have consent, as you explicitly call them to do so...
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Originally posted by intellivision View PostIf it's done without consent, then any data collected should be treated as though it had malicious intent, otherwise such breaches such as the collection of data from unencrypted WiFi networks by Google would be considered perfectly legitimate.
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Originally posted by RahulSundaram View PostYou left out the critical part. The intend of this collection should be malicious. Otherwise, a lot of commercial software should be spyware instead which is absurd.
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Originally posted by intellivision View PostIt's software that collected the personal information of users without their consent, sounds like spyware to me.
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