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No, burying notification of telemetry systems with unknown privacy impact (and most likely sloppy coding/encryption practices (if any!), as is standard for oems
by x0x0 11y ago
No, burying notification of telemetry systems with unknown privacy impact (and most likely sloppy coding/encryption practices (if any!), as is standard for oems) in a eula that is probably 10+ pages of dense text is the opposite of reasonable.
Yet another reason to just buy macs. Apple doesn't do this shit.
- sigmar 11y agoYea, and Apple's app store has no idea what apps you have on your phone. /s
- x0x0 11y agoThe difference is obviousness. If you interact with the app store to buy an app, you clearly know you did so. If you run a spotlight search and it returns results from the internet, spotlight obviously queried the internet somehow. Lenovo monitors what you are doing without in any way telling you, or the user taking any action.
- irl_zebra 11y agoI like iPhones and Macs but Apple certainly does more than just use Spotlight searches to query the internet. They also, for example, record and log your location without telling the user and without the user taking any action. This via cellular network and not GPS, so the user has no say in what is logged. Exactly the type of thing Lenovo does that you imply Apple does not.
- chipperyman573 11y agoI agreed with you until your last line - apple has been doing stuff like this at least sense 2011[1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/04/how-apple-tracks-your-location-without-your-consent-and-why-it-matters/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/04/how-apple-tracks-your-l...
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoApple wasn't uploading that data to their servers. It was only used locally for location accuracy.
- throwawayaway 11y agoau contraire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_%28software%29#Privacy_concerns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_%28software%29#Priva...
- hellbanner 11y agoApple recently updated their privacy policy. Warrant canary removed. They now "cooperate with the law and protect their consumers" AKA we don't give a shit about you, we're selling your data. I don't know how to find it since Google's keywoards are gamed so heavily by newer sites now, but a while back a programmer found GPS logs from his phone when he was using zero GPS apps.