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A Privacy & Security Concern Regarding GNOME Software

fwupd is an integrated part of GNOME Software. In order to be able to receive updates for firmware available in your computer, fwupd sends a list of some hardware devices you have to the platform on fwupd.org (which is named LVFS). It also sends the current driver version of the firmware you have.

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