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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by dragonwriter on Friday February 12, 2021 @12:58PM (#26116484)
> But they're not allowed to use user data from Microsoft to market those services? How else would that data even be useful for Canonical's "implementation and technical support" services?

The data on who was doing what would be useful for providing implementation and technical support to people who has already contracted with Canonical for those services, both for providing the service and, depending on price structure, possibly for billing.

Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by saghm on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:11PM (#26119132)
> The data on who was doing what would be useful for providing implementation and technical support to people who has already contracted with Canonical for those services

So then why should everyone else who doesn't have any contact with Canonical have their data forwarded to them too? This should be opt-in rather then opt-out, let alone always happening with no way to opt out