It's not the same thing. Installing binaries from them doesn't send them any of my local data. I guess their apps could start uploading stuff, but people will

It's not the same thing. Installing binaries from them doesn't send them any of my local data. I guess their apps could start uploading stuff, but people will figure out pretty soon Ubuntu has/is trojans. What we are talking here is about an intentional privacy leak which is brushed off as if they can do anything they please just because they make the distro. There are different layers. I can trust them with the binaries but not with anything else. Or I can trust them with Ubuntu One, but only with what I put there. Or I can trust them sending all the queries to Amazon. It's a continuum but implying that one level of trust involves everything else is naive.