Your Question: What Data Does Ubuntu Collect?
Contents Ubuntu 18.04 Collects Data About Your Pc’s Hardware and Software, Which Packages You Have Installed, and Application Crash Reports, Sending Them All...
Ubuntu 18.04 collects data about your PC’s hardware and software, which packages you have installed, and application crash reports, sending them all to Ubuntu’s servers. You can opt out of this data collection—but you have to do it in three separate places.
Does Ubuntu steal user data?
Ubuntu, a widely used and influential GNU/Linux distribution, has installed surveillance code. When the user searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical’s servers. (Canonical is the company that develops Ubuntu.)
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Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman today called Ubuntu Linux “spyware” because the operating system sends data to Ubuntu maker Canonical when a user searches the desktop. … Ubuntu uses the information about searches to show the user ads to buy various things from Amazon.
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