Sunday 20 May 2018

Telemetry equals Malware when its forced on people without choice or consent

So, I notice a pattern, when a ""respectable business"" creates a system to steal your data / information without informing you and report it back to them they refer to it as "Telemetry". When an unknown or anoymous entity does said same set of activities, it's called one of the following:
  • Malware
  • SpyWare
  • Virus
I have the following (unasked for) "Telemetry" on my NEWLY installed system:
  1. COMODO
  2. Microsoft
  3. Mozilla 
  4. NVIDIA (shame)
 All of these big corporations feel they OWN your equipment and that your simply "renting" the use of their software.

Laws need to be passed reinforcing the rights of the buyer / consumer. We are not services of Apple, Microsoft, Google and NVIDIA to be abused like we where a distributed platform for stealing information to sell to the highest bidders and most interested parties.

The truely sad thing is so many of the younger generation completely accept being owned my Microsoft, and some even favour it. Stockholm syndrome in practice.

Google with the Android product are profiling people 24/7 and because its built into the operating system of the phone its impossible to remove and very hard to block. Probably even doing so is against the licence agreement for usage of the device.

It sickens me that such abuses are considered acceptable and completely common place. Humanity gave up its right to have privacy along with the value of ones own council.