On 30/08/13 21:01, erikthorsen wrote: > But that's not different from essentially every other cloud service > people like using. =p
That doesn't make it okay. Because almost every other OS people are using doesn't respect their freedom, and that doesn't make it "okay". We live in an era of "Big Data", where it's apparently "okay" to subject people to ridiculous levels of surveillance, like these: https://www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-about-what-data-brokers-know-about-you Even if Ubuntu One had a good privacy policy (I haven't read it, so I don't know if it's any good) they will, most likely, keep that information indefinitely. Forever is a long time, a lot can happen in a decade. For example, do we know if Ubuntu will be sold in the next ten years? And will those people respect Ubuntu users' privacy? I think building a database of people that use Ubuntu is especially bad. Since it seems like most users will do whatever is default, that database will probably be pretty reasonably accurate. Andrew.
