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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:41:43 -0700 (Seattle)
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Subject: Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?
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You (Double-A) asked me:
> Do you have any experience with Ubuntu?

No, but Richard Stallman (the top GNU guy) says: ＜＜

  When the user searches her own local files 
  for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, 
  Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical's servers.
  ( Canonical is the company that develops Ubuntu. ) ＞＞

"Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?":
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do