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If my actions generate the data then it's my data, decoupled from my identity or not. Without my actions there's no data for them, ergo it's my data. If they'd
by EvanAnderson 8y ago
If my actions generate the data then it's my data, decoupled from my identity or not. Without my actions there's no data for them, ergo it's my data.
If they'd like to give me some consideration for my data I'd be happy to entertain their offer. (Being granted the right to use the software, in cases where I'm paying for the license, doesn't constitute consideration to me.)
- josteink 8y agoYour comment (action) just caused my aggregated cell-phone data-usage to increment by 200 bytes. Do you own that data? Where do you draw the line?
- hashhar 8y agoActually you don't. By that logic your order history on Amazon is your data but it is expressly not.
- LocalH 8y agoIf there is transparency with regards to the algorithm used, name one good reason why anonymized data is verboten. Not alleging there is such transparency here, just raising the question. It always seems like even anonymous telemetry is considered harmful, and I don't understand why that is from a conceptual standpoint.
- esotericn 8y agoIt's conceptually difficult for me to understand how anonymised data can be useful in any way. There's probably, like, a particular way I move the mouse from the bottom left to the top right corner of my screen. A 'mouse cursor gait', if you will. To be frank though, there doesn't need to be a reason. You're treating this as a Stockholm-syndrome esque situation - I don't need to use Windows, I definitely don't need to justify why I don't like certain aspects of it.
- LocalH 8y agoMine was more a general question, not specifically regarding Windows itself. Some people do need to use Windows for various reasons. Consider yourself lucky if you don’t.