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NVidia's latest video card driver for Windows (version 375.70), adds telemetry tracking.
While you may -- and should -- customize the installation of the Nvidia driver so that only the bits that you require are installed, there is no option to disable the Telemetry components from being installed. These do get installed even if you only install the graphics driver itself in the custom installation dialog.
Most users who use PCs with Nvidia video cards probably don't even know that they are tracked by the software. The Nvidia telemetry service runs in the background on user log on, and additionally once a day.
The article goes into detail on how to disable the new Nvidia telemetry, but it also mentions that the telemetry may require disabling again after every video card driver update. No mention of if the telemetry tracking made its way into the Linux binary blob... yet.
Resistance is futile?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:54PM
According to http://www.howtogeek.com/280101/relax-nvidias-telemetry-didnt-just-start-spying-on-you/ [howtogeek.com] "NVIDIA isn’t gathering more data than it already was, and most of that data is required for it to work properly." Personally, I removed GeForce Experience because I thought it was annoying to see ads during driver updates, that suspiciously take a long time. I'll do the driver updates manually from now on. Even then, it's a Win10 gaming rig only. All other computer use is on a Linux box.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:02PM
Ah, we should relax because they didn't start spying just now, but already did it for some time?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:20AM
Like I said... It's a Win10 gaming rig only. All other computer use is on a Linux box. And... All the tracking bullshit has been removed or disabled on the Linux box.