Way to *seriously* miss the point
This is the thing that always p*sses me off when a company is caught with its hand in the privacy jar:
The software's maker says users can opt out if they want.
1 - I should not have to opt out of something that impairs my rights because yes, Internet companies, privacy has actually been a Human Right (#12) since 1948;
2 - It is in Europe not allowed to default to opt in to privacy grabbing;
3 - even from a sheer marketing perspective it's lunacy to do this, because the moment it leaks (it will, and it has, QED) you have a major PR problem because you're also managing people's most important online data, passwords. Who's to say you haven't been tapping those as well?
Stupid beyond belief. I hope they lose all their customers.
This, by the way, pours some extra validation sauce over Apple's push to get developers to declare what they get up to with user data. No wonder Zuckerberg is seriously pissed off about that..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
