Nvidia Adds Telemetry (Tracking) To Latest Drivers

[DamianTV]

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/11...latest-drivers
http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story...isable_it.html

An anonymous reader shares a report on Ghack:

Telemetry -- read tracking -- seems to be everywhere these days. Microsoft pushes it on Windows, and web and software companies use it as well. While there is certainly some benefit to it on a larger scale, as it may enable these companies to identify broader issues, it is undesirable from a user perspective. Part of that comes from the fact that companies fail to disclose what is being collected and how data is stored and handled once it leaves the user system. In the case of Nvidia, Telemetry gets installed alongside the driver package. While you may customize the installation of the Nvidia driver so that only the bits that you require are installed, there is no option to disable the Telemetry components from being installed. These do get installed even if you only install the graphics driver itself in the custom installation dialog.

Further reading on MajorGeeks.

[Brian4Liberty]

They just want to make sure that any video you play is acceptable. Most people would immediately think of porn (and they will probably track that too), but they will probably be more interested in people who watch videos that would group them MIAC-style (militia, extreme-right, extreme religious, Constitution supporters, God and guns, tax protesters, etc). Alex Jones videos would probably be high on the list. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

[DamianTV]

They just want to make sure that any video you play is acceptable. Most people would immediately think of porn (and they will probably track that too), but they will probably be more interested in people who watch videos that would group them MIAC-style (militia, extreme-right, extreme religious, Constitution supporters, God and guns, tax protesters, etc). Alex Jones videos would probably be high on the list. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

Good call, Comrade.