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Comment The Steam study that collects private data? (Score 1) 127

That Steam "study" claims to collect hardware information for being processed anonymized.

However, when looking at the details of the data it sends to Valve, here are the last 3 items:
* the operating system installation date
* a hash of the MAC address
* a hash of the serial number of the disk

That information doesn't make the data anonymous at all. Intead they allow to identify a particular machine. This is a violation of privacy. If Valve is really processing the rest of the data anonymously, it doesn't need those items. The claim of processing the data anymously is just misleading.

More details (screenshots): https://twitter.com/omengue/st...

Comment Re:France: FM only (Score 1) 150

Note that here (France) DAB+ is just being slowly deployed.

I think that very radio listeners (well except for classical music) would replace their radio receiver just to listen people talking. Especially at a time where electronic waste is a society-wide concern.

Also : cars have built-in radio receiver that you can't replace like we used to do in the 80's-90's. I will not change my car just for DAB+.

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