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Maybe it's more interesting to ask, "why are penises so aerodynamic?"

Why not both?

Excellent point, I should've thought of that.

That seems to say Google won't share your Analytics data without making any guarantee that they won't _use_ your analytics data.

While I feel we should all treat Google with skepticism here, I didn't realize they (and so failed to acknowledge) that Homebrew was attempting to remedy that, so I apologize for speaking out of turn.

Add a feature where users can opt-in for periodic reports to be uploaded as a private gist, and a link is transmitted to you. GitHub is already a trusted party where Homebrew is concerned, so the loss of privacy is minimal. Users control their own GitHub accounts, so they control of the permanence of the data you collect on them. You can use Google Forms to transmit the links, so your infrastructure is cheap-to-free. For bonus points, encrypt the links with your public key.

How does that sound?

Collecting telemetry is reasonably, but it seems inappropriate for Google to get a copy and to be able to identify which of their users installed a particular piece of software from the IP address.

So yes. Running their own server would be much preferable.

What about the people whom Theranos failed to deliver accurate test results to? They are the losers here.

Google Privacy is the program which blurs (things that looks like) faces and license plates.

If you can find a way to use their backup tool to download an arbitrary user's profile, and they don't pay you out at $1M, "BS" can be safely called.

Now imagine that without Google Privacy, better cameras, and shot from the air.

Normally I would agree with you, I often chide people for inventing problems to solve. But it is a little different when it isn't a hypothetical as much as an inevitable future occurrence.

As for refrigerators, I am just as worried about people trying to fly drones around my house as I am about people flying drones around planes, yes. I have it on good authority that anyone with the funds can purchase access to 3D drone-generated map of my city, my house included. A gentleman here in town who replaces windows doesn't bother to measure them anymore; he just uses the drone photos.