The latest version of Intel Arc GPU Graphics Software introduced an interesting change that isn't reflected in the Release Notes. The installer of the 101.4578 beta drivers add a "Compute Improvement Program" (CIP) component as part of the "typical" setup option that is enabled by default. Under the...

Intel graphic drivers collect Telemetry By default in windows.

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
    20·
    1 year ago

    They provide relevant system information for issues which some people are willing to provide. Why not let them?

    • Manbart@beehaw.org
      241·
      1 year ago

      Crash reports are one thing, but web browsing data and enumerating devices on your local network go well beyond that objective

      From https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/idsa-cip.html

      Other devices in your computing environment

      The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself, Includes universal plug and play devices and devices that broadcast

      information to your computer on a local area network: for example, smart TV model and vendor information, and video streaming devices.

      The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself, The information collected includes categorized web browsing history that shows how long and how often you visited specific categories of sites (i.e. social media, personal finance, or news). All site visits are classified into one of 30 categories. We do not collect URLs, web pages titles, or user-specific content without explicit permission from you.

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 year ago

        Crash reports arent the only thing that is a result of a bug. Take for example, the bug involving high idle power consumption is not a crash related bug. The practical way to fix that is to juxtapose settings and conigurations of users receiving the said bug to see of its hardware or software related.

      • Whirlybird
        1·
        1 year ago

        Crash reports are one thing, but web browsing data and enumerating devices on your local network go well beyond that objective

        These are GPU drivers, they affect everything that is displayed on your PC. If using tik tok on chrome for 30 minutes causes the GPU to behave badly, how else are they supposed to find that out?

        Also this is a BETA driver release - you know, ones made specifically for testing data collection.

    • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Because they invariably record way more data than they need to.