That was the line they fed us. I'm old enough to remember a time when software that automatically phoned home just to check if an update was available would be

That was the line they fed us. I'm old enough to remember a time when software that automatically phoned home just to check if an update was available would be considered spyware. It was none of their business knowing the dates and times that we used their product/connected to the internet or what our IP address was