Wacom Tablets Track Your Open Apps, Sending the Data to Google


Software engineer Robert Heaton discovered that his Wacom tablet was tracking every app he opened and sending that data to Google Analytics.

I suspect that Wacom doesn’t really think that it’s acceptable to record the name of every application I open on my personal laptop. I suspect that this is why their privacy policy doesn’t really admit that this is what that they do. I imagine that if pressed they would argue that the name of every application I open on my personal laptop falls into one of their broad buckets like “aggregate data” or “technical session information”, although it’s not immediately obvious to me which bucket.

Check It Out: Wacom Tablets Track Your Open Apps, Sending the Data to Google

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  1. Lee Dronick Subscriber 6 años ago

    it sounds like their commitment to privacy has gone down the drain.

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    1. Andrew Orr Author 6 años ago

      Lol BAZINGA

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