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Companies that extensive telemetry are doing you a great disservice.avast Extension File Virus.

Companies that choose to offer no or reduced logging are actually doing you a service. For example Gryphon sends no logs unless you manually send them, therefore any interception of anything is quite irrelevant. Remember, if a product/service reduces or eliminates logs they are essentially activating better privacy by default. Also, if you take a privacy position it will become second nature, like taking a shower or putting your shoes on, it's just something you do out of habit, day to day. There are many examples of this, but keeping it under control is far easier than reigning it in after losing it. I was also surprised to find Costco shares shopper telemetry and purchase history with third parties, but you can open a chat with them and opt-out. If not toggled, they will share your data, including purchase history to questionable third parties. Login to their portals and look for privacy toggles. I was surprised to find banks and credit card firms have extensive opt-out's you can partake in. Even if they have no actionable intelligence on someone in terms of activity, they are still holding that data and they've proved themselves unsuitable hosts for it. Governments aren't good stewards of data. We can see corporations do this and utilize public domain intelligence to build profiles on potential candidates they interview. We can also see examples of it here in the USA already. We can see what all of that data is doing over in China. If they have nothing, they can do nothing. The more information out there the more someone can turn the screws on you. I know at least one person that had some of their medical data compromised on a site where you share health/fitness and other data. Another guy I know, his company hired someone that basically after a few days knew a whole lot about everyone and sort of used that as leverage against them. I have a couple recent events that illustrated why privacy can be important.Ī friend was stalked, badly, by an internet stalker and it became really real, fast. I cannot tell you the number of times I've worked at a place where those principles go out the door when there's a business critical issue at hand. and that requires me to place a lot of trust in the vendor that they are not easily compromised by ulterior motives and also that they are doing exactly what they say they're doing with that information.
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But a full blown internet security suite basically provides detailed logs about everything you're doing on your system. I already have to do that with my OS vendor, and to some extent my browser vendor, sure.
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Third party security software is always a huge dilemma for me because it forces me to place absolute trust in yet another entity. And like with any cloud service, it degrades you of control over your data and allows other entities (either through legal subpoena or "cooperation") to request your data. Capturing those also reveals your credentials. Sometimes HTTPS sites will post your credentials directly as URL arguments to Javascript requests. For example, certain long URLs from Facebook images or cloud photo libraries actually do have your account ID embedded in them, which specifically identifies you, making anonymization difficult. Those things more provide a service for me, and while to some extent I'm letting them run on my machine, it is within the confines of a browser sandbox and there's also frequently finer grained permissions with regards to what they are allowed to see or modify.Ĭapturing a detailed log of URLs can be problematic for many reasons.

I'm not sure people feel the same way about browser extensions. You generally live with and trust a roommate or domestic partner because you either have some expectation that they have the common decency not to be snooping around your important documents or doing forensic analysis on your hard drives while you're not home, or because you have such a relationship that you simply don't care even if they do. I think there are varying degrees of trust.
