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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's reporting usage and error data back to the company. As an engineer who used to work on appliances that did this the data is used to drive design direction as well as find trends in failure that we could make changes for.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In this era of late stage capitalism, the only changes that will be made from this data will be changes that make the company more profit. Not necessarily changes that make the device more reliable, durable, or have a greater longevity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Exactly , you still got DDR fridges going strong today. But can't build too good stuff , who gonna buy new appliances then?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, anonymous diagnostic data is clearly a threat to my privacy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Problem is ofc that none of the mentioned examples included any security...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I definitely meant to respond to the engineer as a joke, not to the doomsayer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just pointed out one of the problems with "anonymous data" collection. Another big one would be the aggregation issue