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The home of Raspberry Pi Imager, a user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.
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[BUG]: Raspberry Pi Imager phones home with surveillance without my consent like spyware #938

Open sneak opened 4 hours ago

sneak commented 4 hours ago

What happened?

The imager covertly exfiltrates my activity data to the hostname rpi-imager-stats.raspberrypi.com without consent when I flash an image.

This happens silently, so not only does it happen against my will and without my consent, it doesn't even disclose that it's doing so, just like spyware.

Version

1.8.5

What host operating system were you using?

macOS

Host OS Version

15.0

Selected OS

HAOS

Which Raspberry Pi Device are you using?

Raspberry Pi 5

What kind of storage device are you using?

microSD Card in a USB reader

OS Customisation

Relevant log output

No response

lurch commented 4 hours ago

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager?tab=readme-ov-file#telemetry

sneak commented 3 hours ago

Yes, I understand that the nonconsensual stealth surveillance is intentionally included in the app. That's wrong; it makes rpi-imager spyware, definitionally.