The Fedora Telemetry Controversy Has Reached Peak Absurdity: System Now Sends Your Terminal History To Red Hat And Claims It's 'For Your Safety'
RED HAT — In an unprecedented turn of events that will surely surprise no one familiar with the open source industry, Fedora 40 has announced the inclusion of a “privacy-preserving” telemetry system that, according to Red Hat officials, sends your entire terminal history to their servers in a “secure, encrypted, privacy-first” manner.
“The new telemetry system is designed to ‘protect’ your data by analyzing your terminal commands and predicting which ones you’re most likely to type next, then sending that prediction to Red Hat’s cloud infrastructure for ‘real-time security validation,’” read the Fedora 40 release notes.