Zorin OS Has Been Sending Anonymised Telemetry

Zorin OS Has Been Sending Anonymised Telemetry

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Buried in the Privacy Policy on the Zorin OS website is a statement that the OS sends an anonymised “ping” every hour. The only way to remove it is via sudo apt remove zorin-os-census.
There is no mention of the Zorin OS Census in the system installer.

Sources:
https://zorinos.com/legal/privacy/
https://itsfoss.com/zorin-os-privacy-concerns/
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/key-definitions/what-is-personal-data/

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