NVIDIA Update Forces Users to Share Personal Data

[allardjd 1,853]

NVIDIA Update Forces Users to Share Personal Data to Use Graphics Card Tools

 

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/15/nvidia-update-forces-users-to-share-personal-data-to-use-graphics-card-tools/

 

This is kind of creepy.  It puts me in mind of the Oculus Rift stuff where they will record and upload your body movements while you are using it.  Companies are getting pretty heavy handed, in a sneaky fashion, to vacuum up more and more information about us.

 

John

[hifly 925]

Creepy indeed John, it seems corporations want there finger in your every orifice. It'll be subliminal stuff next. I fear for my kids.  

[Gunner 69]

   Soon the unusual will be when a software will not share, collect, upload, monitor something about the unfortunate user.

[Quickmarch 488]

Quoted fro the site referred: " Fortunately, other than targeted ads, there is nothing you can get in the GeForce experience that you can’t get somewhere else. You can update the drivers on your own through the official website, stream using HitBox or Twitch.tv, and external tweaking utilities like NVIDIA Inspector are available from third party sites and services. If you want it all centralized, it’s there, and it’s quite competent. But, if you’d rather not trade your privacy for convenience, alternatives aren’t hard to find. "

 

Looks like it isn't really necessary to get in bed with them. If they do start insisting - they're not the only player out there.

 

 

[brett 2,315]

It's like a legalized virus and there is no end in sight.

[SEATAC 400]

Bloodsucking leeches

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

Just now, SEATAC said:

Bloodsucking leeches

 

'Draining Your cash is good for the economy...hold still while we insert contracts into all of your veinues"

[J G 927]

Personally I find the capture of any information about an individual and their preferences without consent an invasion of my personal privacy. That goes for the "agree to these terms or you cant install our software" terms and conditions where the terms include clauses about data harvesting. Often enough there become apparent during the install process and therefore after you have purchased the software.

 

I have seen the results of this kind of behaviour cropping up via online advertising obviously tailored to my web searches at the more benign end of the spectrum to nuisance phone calls at the other. There should be an opt-in law for this kind of thing. I find that in many online registration forms a phone number is mandatory as is an email address. I can see that sometimes an email is useful for log-in or password recovery but ask yourselves, how often has a software developer made use of that data and given you a call.  Its never happened to me.  However the dataset gathered about you is very much more saleable with that nugget of information there.  

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

I'm kind of tempted to buy a burner phone and keep a few bucks on it, for registrations or store accounts that require a phone #...'oh...it's ringing...whatever'. If it rings more than 4 times a month, toss it in the bay and buy a new one with a new number.

[Quickmarch 488]

@Captain Coffee - who's to say they ever check the phone number. Just make one up. (your area code) 555-1234. Save yourself the $30 for the burner. 

[dogtrack 346]

I have an old (11 yrs+) Motorola Razr v8 pay as you go.  Which I presume is much the same as a Burner. No money on it what so ever but it is capable of receiving Texts.  I use its number for all unimportant requests and it is always accepted without any problems.