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

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."

Comments

Re:sudo apt-get install shred

[kthreadd]

Then install debian.

Stallman's organization maintains a list of approved distributions.
Debian is not there, so he won't recommend it.

Re:Don't use Ubuntu

[s4m7]

Mint makes money through their default search engine redirect, or in other words, by selling your keyword searches. Which is exactly what Ubuntu is doing. They've just been doing it for longer.