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Says the president of the largest spyware ("telemetry") distributor in the world
by fron 7y ago
Says the president of the largest spyware ("telemetry") distributor in the world
- Hoasi 7y ago"Please regulate the competition!"
- mc32 7y agoTrue, but that’s because given their revenue model, this would impact them less than the corps which have embedded their tentacles deep into personal data of their users. Adtech is, by now, addicted to people freely giving up thief data and rights to their data. Never the less, whatever happens when the elephants wrangle, it’s good for end users.
- ToFab123 7y agolargest. Hardly. Google and Facebook wins clean on this one.
- GoToRO 7y agoIf you don't play by the same rules, you loose. What he says is that the rules need to change.
- whiteflame7000 7y agoWhats interesting is that the DoD only uses windows machines even at the NSA. I think I might know where that telemetry might be going.
- colejohnson66 7y agoWhile I think the whole “telemetry” thing is overblown, there are enterprise editions of Windows that come with little to no telemetry. And I’m certain there’s custom builds of Windows for the government that have all traces of telemetry (to Microsoft) scrubbed.