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Ubuntu wants to slurp PCs' vital statistics – even location – with new desktop installs

elgarak1

Except that it has been shown repeatedly: the longer the list of collected non-identifiable data, it can be used, in combination, to identify, or at least to single out one specific individual. And slowly even (European) courts understand this.

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