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Intel wants to provide the best computing experiences. To accomplish this, we would like your permission to collect, use, and combine information to understand:
The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself

Software usage: for example, frequency and duration of application usage such as Intel® Driver & Support Assistant, but not the application content itself such as specific actions or keyboard input.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/idsa-...

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> To accomplish this, we would like your permission to collect, use, and combine information

Oh man, they left a typo in there. Did anybody catch it? They use the word 'permission' when this is actually selected by default for all users who install their drivers. Hey, that's not how you ask for permission! I would love to see the look on their faces when they realize this mistake.

In general, Silicon Valley has a huge problem with / misunderstanding of things like "permission" and "consent." If computing was like dating, Silicon Valley would be a creepy guy in the nightclub constantly telling women: "We are now dating. Do you want to dance? [Yes] [Ask Again Later]"

They'd be more like the guy who sees a girl at a bar who he works with, roofies her, takes her home, and then doesn't do anything to her but makes sure she knows that he *could* have, isn't he such a nice guy?

Everyone is all aboard the consent train until it becomes inconvenient. See all the apps/websites with options for "yes" and "not now". I could never make that a button without feeling gross

Wow ... that sounds a lot like Spyware.

Telemetry is spyware with a marketing facelift.

But I agree with a previous poster. If you're OK with what Windows already then this barely registers. For all we know this one won't even reset the manual opt-out every 6months to a year so it might be a minor annoyance in comparison.

Philosophically and ethically and technically speaking, telemetry that happens automatically without first obtaining informed consent from the user being surveilled (i.e. so-called "opt-out telemetry") is equivalent to spyware.

This is not surprising. Intel did things like ME in the past. The days where you bought the hardware and had full control over it are long gone imho

They're still doing ME are they not?

Did they ever stop?

That was my question exactly.

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