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by alpaca128 1540 days ago
You mean like when Microsoft started uploading all handwriting & voice recognition inputs including passwords?

History has shown that telemetry is effectively spyware until proven otherwise, no matter who does it.

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I think you could've had a full stop before 'until proven otherwise'.
Yeah but if Microsoft fuck up badly enough I can sue them, startups are less likely to survive a significant breach (especially if the thing being breached is 100% of their product). There's just far less risk.