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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 878424" data-attributes="member: 83059">Thank you both! It&#039;s definitely my pleasure to dig into these issues. Testing the performance/effectiveness is one very important data point, but if we are choosing to use these products to protect our data and have them observe basically everything we are doing on our computer, I think the privacy implications are absolutely worth asking. I&#039;ve learned a lot from this thread too, and I&#039;m glad that we do have an option to passively use KSN to still get the benefit without the privacy concerns. I still want to contribute to the KSN on machines that don&#039;t handle my sensitive data, but I am glad that a paid product has a choice to run in privacy-sensitive mode.My main feedback to Kaspersky is I wish they&#039;d be transparent in their event logs about submissions and telemetry. If they would show me when a submission happens and what exactly they uploaded, I could be more convinced that they are collecting harmless information and feel more comfortable in opting into KSN.Until then, my opinion is that if I am paying $50-100 a year to use a product like KTS, I am paying for Kaspersky&#039;s R&amp;D, and do not feel I should be required to contribute to their crowdsourced intelligence data. Kaspersky seems to agree as well. I also think it&#039;s somewhat reasonable to have a free product that forces participation in exchange for protection.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 878424, member: 83059"] Thank you both! It's definitely my pleasure to dig into these issues. Testing the performance/effectiveness is one very important data point, but if we are choosing to use these products to protect our data and have them observe basically everything we are doing on our computer, I think the privacy implications are absolutely worth asking. I've learned a lot from this thread too, and I'm glad that we do have an option to passively use KSN to still get the benefit without the privacy concerns. I still want to contribute to the KSN on machines that don't handle my sensitive data, but I am glad that a paid product has a choice to run in privacy-sensitive mode. My main feedback to Kaspersky is I wish they'd be transparent in their event logs about submissions and telemetry. If they would show me when a submission happens and what exactly they uploaded, I could be more convinced that they are collecting harmless information and feel more comfortable in opting into KSN. Until then, my opinion is that if I am paying $50-100 a year to use a product like KTS, I am paying for Kaspersky's R&D, and do not feel I should be required to contribute to their crowdsourced intelligence data. Kaspersky seems to agree as well. I also think it's somewhat reasonable to have a free product that forces participation in exchange for protection. [/QUOTE]

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