Free Software Foundation Richard stoman accused Ubuntu of collecting user information

Open-source systems are pleasant. Because the open-source system allows you to know the purpose of each piece of code, you can use it in various environments without worrying about the leakage of personal privacy. Now Linux is becoming more and more popular. Is Linux Secure now? Ubuntu is a popular Linux release in the world, but it may collect your user information. For example, when you search for your local files on the Ubuntu Desktop, the operating system may have uploaded the code of this string to the Canonical server. Maybe

Open-source systems are pleasant. Because the open-source system allows you to know the purpose of each piece of code, you can use it in various environments without worrying about the leakage of personal privacy. Now Linux is becoming more and more popular. Is Linux Secure now? Ubuntu is a popular Linux release in the world, but it may collect your user information.

For example, when you search for your local files on the Ubuntu Desktop, the operating system may have uploaded the code of this string to the Canonical server. You may not know that Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu.

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Canonical handed over these fields to Amazon to ensure that they are not identifiable. However, for some users with high security requirements, they still cannot accept the operating system in silent mode, to transfer data. The purpose of Canonical is to ignore the existence of the operation.

As multiple operating systems, including Elementary and Linux Mint, are based on Ubuntu, companies should tell users how many users are deprived of their right to know.

FSF Richard stoman believes that this is a precaution. The simplest solution is to recommend that you enable Ubuntu to anonymously collect user information during installation?