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When was it not? Telemetry - the act of collecting logs/"metrics" and reporting them back to a remote (tele) station - how could this not be considered telemetr
by nathanlied 3y ago
When was it not? Telemetry - the act of collecting logs/"metrics" and reporting them back to a remote (tele) station - how could this not be considered telemetry?
- davidw 3y agoIt has only been called that recently in the context of software. Edit: have been doing software since the mid-nineties. You can downvote all you want, but this is a more recent usage.
- AnonCoward42 3y agoActually the name for it previously was spyware or the act of spying. The term telemetry is/was more neutral, but it also has a bad reputation by now (euphemism treadmill).
- stanleydrew 3y agoIt's called "spyware" when you don't trust the collector to be acting in good faith.
- yamtaddle 3y agoUsed to be that transmitting data about what the user's doing without asking for permission was "spyware" automatically—that it was happening behind your back was already a sign of bad faith. The opt-in thing is fine, but some of us are still stuck, I guess, on older standards for software ethics, and find it entirely unacceptable and alarming that opt-out was ever proposed in the first place, about as bad as if they'd proposed adding an opt-out bitcoin miner to it to help fund the project—it's disturbing they'd consider that OK to even propose.