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the proposal is from a red-hat team member and is proposing addition of "privacy-respecting" telemetry. here's the link to the hyperkitty thread

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[–] DaveX64@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

That's the camel's nose in the tent, eventually you wind up with an Edward Snowden type situation:

https://gazettengr.com/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people/

They can do their own in house testing and let that be good enough. As you say though, I don't use RHEL derivatives since they killed Centos.