Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth Wins Austria's Big Brother Award

Posted by Unknown on Monday October 28, 2013 @10:55AM from the it-burns dept.

sfcrazy writes "Austria's Big Brother Awards awarded the coveted Big Brother Award to Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth for Ubuntu Dash's privacy reducing online extensions to local searches." From the article: "What’s bad here and raises question here is that despite repeated requests Canonical refused to make the tracking option opt-in. The feature is installed and enabled by default so the moment one install Ubuntu it starts sending info to Canonical servers until the user deliberately disables it."

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Wut? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-28 11:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

If that is the biggest brother in Austria, they are living in paradise.
You are small time by sqrt(2) · 2013-10-28 11:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

I can think of someone more deserving.

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Riiiiiight... by FuzzNugget · 2013-10-28 11:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

Because, of all the privacy violators made apparent in the past several months, Canonical is clearly the worst offender.