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Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments

Posted by Soulskill on from the sounds-like-something-he'd-say dept.

Giorgio Maone writes "Ubuntu developer and fellow Mozillian Benjamin Kerensa chatted with various people about the new Amazon Product Results in the Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash. Among them, Richard Stallman told him that this feature is bad because: 1. 'If Canonical gets this data, it will be forced to hand it over to various governments.'; 2. Amazon is bad. Concerned people can disable remote data retrieval for any lens and scopes or, more surgically, use sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping."

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  1. Obligatory xkcd by kvvbassboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/1095/

    Mod parent +1 funny.

  2. Re:sad but true by couchslug · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Stop worrying about the government, because corporations are already harvesting you and selling it to the government at a deep discount."

    But, but I TRUST the Koch Brothers when they say Government Is Bad.

    The Invisible Hand Of The Market will protect me.

    --
    "This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."