Well, on one hand it&#x27;s not a big deal because it&#x27;s all the EULA and you&#x27;ve presumably read it and agreed it to it before booting up.<p>On the other, it&#x27;s a pretty big deal because I view my computers as extensions of my brain. And I view the ability to do things privately in my brain of paramount importance.<p>Now, I understand why software builders like to build in telemetry (it allows them to tweak their products to be more popular and sell data to advertisers) but I cannot accept such a thing for a general-purpose operating system.