Because we don't need any experience with any software to say that telemetry, any kind of it, is wrong; it has already been abused and will be abused. Long go

Because we don't need any experience with any software to say that telemetry, any kind of it, is wrong; it has already been abused and will be abused. Long gone are the days of a program that bombed, so one would send the core dump containing a great deal of personal information and sensitive data to the developers who would investigate the bug and mail back an uuencoded solution. Sounds old? Yeah because it is. This is now a connected world in which every hole can be exploited to make money or gain advantages over other people, software that phones home -no matter if in perfect good faith or not- can be exploited to do nasty things. Thumbs down.