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Given recent revelations , I think the discussion regarding the ethics leaving some scopes in the default and even their inclusion in the repositories repositories should be revisited.
If you want me to be more explicit:
- We know that youtube is part of PRISM.
- We don't know if Amazon joined PRISM or not. The only big US company we know refused to "cooperate by making NSA access easier" is twitter. Amazon is still a US-located company and thus is bound to the law and court orders that allow this , and so is twitter.
I think this should be a concern to non-US citizens using Ubuntu. In the case of Amazon, searches are made from Canonical's servers. But that may not be enough of a protection. NSA could target specific communications between Canonical and US servers. If they knew a special individual is a ubuntu user they could listen to the home searches of all users in order to attempt to datamine them. I think that the scope of PRISM and the extremes that we now know NSA is capable of should make Canonical reconsider these decisions as they now have risks much higher than Amazon learning what sort of porn you like.