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It doesn't seem reasonable to blame them for an arbitrary potential future when they're currently doing the right thing.
by bpicolo 9y ago
It doesn't seem reasonable to blame them for an arbitrary potential future when they're currently doing the right thing.
- mnem 9y agoNo, however the description of the plugin should make it clear data will be uploaded to a third party server for recognition so the user can make a choice about that.
- bpicolo 9y agoIt more or less does. `For developers: Copyfish is published under the GPL open-source license. As OCR software, it uses the free OCR API from https://ocr.space/ https://ocr.space/ .`
- tripzilch 9y agoI don't find that clear at all. And this is also important to non-developers. Also, for nearly all documents I ever need to scan, if they're important enough to require scanning, they're important enough that a third party should have nothing to do with them. The majority of exceptions to the above being, ironically, documents without text, sketches, doodles, etc.
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- m-p-3 9y ago> when they're currently doing the right thing You mean that we have to place some trust that they are. Some users cannot afford that kind of trust.
- icebraining 9y ago"The best way to avoid privacy breaches is not to formulate a detailed privacy policy; it's to reduce your capabilities so that you're unable to violate anyone's privacy." http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-with-cat-jpg.html http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...