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Catching up with CalibreCatching up with CalibrePosted Sep 1, 2011 5:08 UTC (Thu) by malcolmt (guest, #65441)Parent article: Catching up with Calibre
The phone-home bit is concerning. I just had a look around the calibre website and couldn't see it mentioned anywhere that they routinely collect identifying information like this (and unique id and IP address definitely counts as that). I don't feel unreasonable in classifying that as as under-handed and fairly unacceptable in this day and age of privacy awareness.
I iz disappointment. :-(
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Catching up with Calibre Posted Sep 1, 2011 7:49 UTC (Thu) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link]
There is now a warning in the Wikipedia article :)
Catching up with Calibre Posted Sep 2, 2011 23:55 UTC (Fri) by nanday (subscriber, #51465) [Link]
To be fair, Kovid Goyal was completely open about phoning home when I asked him about it. I suspect that he never stopped to think that some of us might object to it.
Just possibly, he might mention this feature more openly or make it optional if people voiced their objections directly to him.
- Bruce Byfield
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