Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

John Rowland Lenton john.lenton at canonical.com
Wed Oct 12 18:22:58 UTC 2011


On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:18:43 +0200, David Barth <david.barth at canonical.com> wrote:
> Le 11/10/2011 22:04, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit :
> >
> > Apple had an equivalent privacy problem with the iTunes MiniStore five
> > years ago.<http://boingboing.net/2006/01/11/itunes-update-spies.html>

there's a significant difference, in that (at least according to that
article) iTunes sent information about everything you were listening to,
as opposed to explicit searches which is what we're doing.
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