Hi again.

Thank you for your response.

It must have been too late in the evening when I wrote my post. I don’t know why I confused the points made by UnboundID with your list – sorry about that.

With regards to your two first points I agree that it probably would not be more costly to ship devices preinstalled with this software. However I don’t see how it would cost less?

Also Wireshark permits you to monitor every outbound data transfer and thus allows you to look into the exact data which leaves your system. Doesn’t that address your first two points? Or is it something else you are looking for?

Regarding:
“I would expect the big players to be highly resistant to their “data partners” playing an active role in deciding what gets shared and how…”

That is probably true. If changes were implemented in a way that would make the company unable to use this data, I guess they would have to find another business model. My guess is that many services that I at the moment do not have to pay for, would now become paid services instead. This is not a trade-off which I personally am willing to make. Though personally I start having a problems when data about me is send to these companies at times when I am in fact not using their products. I have no problem when Google for instance collects data about me, when I am using their services.

Anyways, have a nice day!