Mark Shuttleworth Addresses Ubuntu Privacy Issues

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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Parent got a +3

[Anonymous Coward]

He only got a +3 so far?!?

for that information, I think he should get a +5 insightful for the next month even he's posting Goat.se links.

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[Anonymous Coward]

See that APK? You can do it without being a total crank nutjob.

Re:LOL

[GameboyRMH]

This. Ubuntu has jumped the shark so long ago. It lost what made it special. Why is anyone still using it?

Re:LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

And yet iPhone has more and better apps and it's hardware in benchmarks outperforms any phone in its class with less RAM and CPU cores. It also has a faster GPU than any of ita contemporary competition. The iPhone 5 smacked the shit out of the Galaxy S IIII performance.