Feb 18 2014, 04:58 PM
QUOTE(Angel of Deth @ Feb 18 2014, 04:48 PM)
Nope, there are still plenty of heavyweights allegedly spying on their user: http://www.informationweek.com/security/vu.../d/d-id/1112911, then you have Facebook allegation as well. At least in this VAC case, Gaben is pretty upfront and responsive to the customer's concern.
Facebook isn't a good example here. It's very nature involves private information presented to the public for consumption. If you are already presenting your photos to your friends (and even non friends can access it just by copying the exact address), how can you stop Facebook itself from not violating your privacy here? The only thing Facebook doesn't do is to snoop your Windows OS looking for unuploaded pictures or to snoop on your browsing history of other websites to learn things they shouldn't. And yes, there are already many petitions/outcry against Facebook for their privacy issues when tracking actions people do in Facebook.However, whatever you do in Facebook is fair game to Facebook as it's in their TOS already and most that read it already know what they're in for.
If you say on that level, privacy is a concern. Then every website that accepts email address as login would be violating your privacy as any network admin will be able to see. Remember, it's not a privacy violation if you willingly gave information that they are asking for. It's a privacy violation if they are either using it for other purposes or doing something underhanded to fish information that you're not giving them.
As for the article in question, it doesn't mention antivirus companies phoning home/snooping on users/invading their privacy by uploading personally identifiable information.
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