Well said. I ran into the same issue when trying to file a bug report. I didn’t want to share all that info so didn’t file the bug report.
Regards, Cliff Scott > On Oct 29, 2021, at 18:03, Gregory Nowak <g...@gregn.net> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 08:35:56AM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I don't think anybody forces you to provide real information. > > Quoting from: > <https://www.oracle.com/legal/terms.html> > > 7. Security, Passwords and Means of Accessing the Site and Content > > "If any of the Services require you to open an account, you must complete the > registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate > information as required by the applicable registration form." > > 8. No Unlawful or Prohibited Use > You agree not to use the Site, or Content provided on or through the Site, > for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use or the > rules, guidelines or terms of use posted for a specific area of the Site or > Content provided on or through the Site. > > Are you suggesting we should violate Oracle's terms of use when > creating an Oracle account to file a VirtualBox bug report? > > >> Oracle isn't >> in the business of harvesting employment infornation for the purposes if >> selling Oracle Database to individuals. > > 6. Your Content > Oracle does not want to receive confidential information from you through or > in connection with the Site. Notwithstanding anything that you may note or > state in connection with Sharing Content, it shall not be considered > confidential information and shall be received and treated by Oracle on a > non-confidential and unrestricted basis and Oracle shall not take and shall > not be required to take any steps to safeguard the confidentiality of any > information that you Share, other than as specified in Oracle's Privacy > Policy. > > The above doesn't sound encouraging to me. While we may disagree on > what is and isn't confidential information, I consider my address, > phone number, and employment information to be confidential. The only > other things someone needs in the U.S. to steal my identity is my date > of birth, and social security number. If oracle was going to send me > letters as a result of filing a bug report, I could see a reason for > wanting my mailing address, but I doubt that would happen. I don't > plan to use an Oracle account for anything else at this time. What > oracle does with the information I provide isn't the issue. The issue > is that there is no clear and justified reason to ask for this kind of > information to file a bug report. The less of my unnecessary > information sits in yet another database, the better as far as I'm concerned. > >> >> What happens if you create an account under name Fictitious Nonellison with >> an email address notelliso...@gmail.com and the mailing address if, say, >> the White House? > > See above. > > Greg > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your > contacts. > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org > > > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
