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[Paul H]

Originally Posted by McBain

Here's the press release off Sony's web site. It should be voluntary.

"Should be voluntary" seems to be hopeful thinking but in reality I'm finding out that this is turning out to be a rampant misnomer. The potential for "big brother is watching" could also be an imminent possibility given human involvement.

Example quote from another person affected on a different forum:

Originally Posted by jpride

I don't know if they changed anything with your model, but on my F13, it was already installed and running in the background until I uninstalled it. After that, there was a bunch of stuff left behind as well that I then deleted.

Then when I did a clean install on my laptop and was installing some Sony utilities, I got a pop up asking if I wanted to participate in the program and I said no. That not only stopped it from running, but it did not install it at all and I see no remnants of the program on my computer.