Mark Shuttleworth Addresses Ubuntu Privacy Issues

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 18, 2013 @05:48AM from the lets-have-a-look dept.

sfcrazy writes "Mark Shuttleworth has for the first time talked about the privacy issues in Ubuntu Dash after being criticized by EFF and FSF. He mentioned some changes in the way use can 'disable' the search results. However the company has showed that under no circumstances they will disable the online search by default as demanded by EFF and FSF. Shuttleworth was simply spinning the wheel moving things around to give an impression that something has been done where as the core problem remains — Dash sends keystrokes by default and legally every user agrees to send such keystrokes to PRODUCT.canonical.com server to be shared with partners like Facebook."

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Re:This is how shuttleworth kills ubuntu by amiller2571 · 2013-02-18 06:40 · Score: 1, Funny

although I still prefer yum to apt-get...
I much prefer pacman to any of them
Re:This is how shuttleworth kills ubuntu by chill · 2013-02-18 06:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Donkey Kong was by far a better game.

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Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-18 09:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Anyone caught posting the above will be beaten severely with their own keyboard.
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