Even if we outlaw phone-home for information-gathering, automatic updates have to upload information about your architecture in order to download binaries. I d

Even if we outlaw phone-home for information-gathering, automatic updates have to upload information about your architecture in order to download binaries. I don't think anybody is suggesting at this point we ditch automatic updates -- the consensus seems to be they fix more problems than they cause. So this is going to remain a problem.