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Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

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Re: Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

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Post by varispeed »

acqq wrote: post #3

This is definitely not what I'd be ready to approve: "Intel provides a long list of the types of data it collects" ... "Those include the types of websites you visit , which Intel says are dumped into 30 categories and logged without URLs or information that identifies you, including how long and how often you visit certain types of sites. " Emphasis mine. I surely don't expect that from a GPU driver company. Damn.

I wonder what are those categories and if Intel knows something we don't know.

For instance, this information will be useful for the coming implementation of CBDC in various countries and form a basis of social credit score.

Intel will probably make a ton of money by selling this information to governments.

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

The time seems to be getting closer to the ubiquitous need for an 'allow list' for outbound internet connections. OpenSnitch or equivalent (per device) + Pi-Hole / Adguard (per network).

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Re: Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

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Post by xnx »

A terrifying side-effect of AI is that everything is now potential "training data" and there's financial incentive to vacuum up any and all possible data. The situation on Windows is much worse than Chrome extensions (which have been attempting this for awhile) because of the near non-existent permission limits on Windows. I was shocked to learn just yesterday that Nvidia drivers were doing this. It feels extremely gross, like someone has broken into your home.

Re: Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

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Post by pptr »

I don't understand the need to include "the types of websites you visit" in GPU driver telemetry.

AMD's telemetry doesn't seem to include that: https://www.amd.com/en/legal/privacy/user-experience-program...

I couldn't figure out what telemetry is collected by Nvidia.

Re: Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

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Post by ladyanita22 »

opan wrote: post #2

How will this affect GNU/Linux? They mention an installer and a yes/no prompt, which to me implies Windows. If it can be disabled, I suppose distro packagers will likely make the choice for the user when they create the package. Or is this a driver that would be included in the kernel itself?

It will not affect Linux

Re: Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

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Post by saiya-jin »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #10
fnordpiglet wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The process that is motivated by profits. Here’s the thing. It not only got approved but it almost certainly got some people promoted.

Add to this a total and utter lack of any interest from any political parties with any chance of being elected to govern a country. User-hostility in the privacy realm is open slather. It's (more than?) likely to be encouraged by political parties because they can buy and use the data for their, inarguably worse for society, constituent-hostile political gaming. The pirates are the corporates and there is no law unde…

Yeah, you can't say a big no-no to private companies doing this and in the same time collect everything on everybody without any good law to back it up, even about hobo half around the world as long as they leave any kind of data trail (or somebody else does on their behalf).

Somebody may connect the dots and uses it against you in election campaigns. So we are where we are, all politicians are well aware of this topic, all pros and cons, but nobody wants to touch it with 10m pole unless they can somehow spin it into their advantage. But then again, politicians have supporters, donations etc. Can't bite the hand that feeds you, can you.

And there is always that cheap argument about 'think about the children...' when terrorists don't terrorize general population enough.

Re: Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

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Post by steeleduncan »

opan wrote: post #2

How will this affect GNU/Linux? They mention an installer and a yes/no prompt, which to me implies Windows. If it can be disabled, I suppose distro packagers will likely make the choice for the user when they create the package. Or is this a driver that would be included in the kernel itself?

Intel provides open source drivers GPU drivers for GNU/Linux. As long as that remains true it is unlikely they'd try to collect telemetry through those drivers. If they do, it would get stripped out long before it reaches the kernel.
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