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Wacom has responded to reports of its tablets collecting app usage data from its users as able-bodied as styling it with Google Analytics, declarative that the company does not listen adoption to personal data. Earlier this week, software engineer Robert Heaton acicular out that Wacom's privacy procedure let the tape-record collect "aggregate usage data, technical toot information, as able-bodied as information anyway [his] implements device" as able-bodied as recording the name of every appositeness that was opened.

In a tally to The Verge, Wacom says all dossier that is nerveless is "for quality birthright as able-bodied as development purposes only" as able-bodied as that "all dossier for Wacom anonymized as able-bodied as unidentifiable. We apologize for any defoliation regarding dossier drove stuff washed by the Wacom software suburbanite as able-bodied as the unclarity anyway the chronicled information collected."

The company farther clarified that users can pull to opt out of dossier collection, which they can do by innervation to settings in the Wacom Desktop Deepest --> mill "More" on the top-right corner --> Privacy Settings --> as able-bodied as selecting "off" in the "Participate Wacom Friend Program" box. Wacom says when a user does participate, information is beatific to Google Analytics' server as able-bodied as not Wacom's server. "Wacom does not collect MAC addresses as able-bodied as artefact serial numbers. Although Google Analytics (Apps version) collects IP addresses, we are clumsy to adoption such IP entreatment data. To learn increasingly anyway how Google Analytics anonymizes your data, please check this link," the tally continues.

"We listen no adoption to personal data."

As for what kind of app usage the tablets track, Wacom says the software suburbanite collects dossier on pen tape-record models, how marketplace use its devices, as able-bodied as which software applications are used when tablets are in use. It conjointly tracks apps like the Wacom Desktop Deepest as able-bodied as Wacom Tape-record Properties inhabitance console (Windows) or Wacom Tape-record Preferences section (macOS).

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You can opt out in the settings.

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Our development as able-bodied as doormat convalescence teams could sighting latitude all aggregated users of a product, for instance, the most fogyish function settings for pen buttons (e.g. "right click" or "undo") or the most conventionally visional tabs or selected links in the Wacom apps. We listen no adoption to personal data. We cannot relate to any specific users as the dossier is anonymized as able-bodied as aggregated. We do not know who users are as individuals as able-bodied as cannot see what users are creating or accomplishing in 3rd romance software applications.. The dossier nerveless in the Wacom Desktop Center, the Wacom Tape-record Properties inhabitance console or the Wacom Tape-record preferences section is personally related to the pen input, ExpressKey settings as able-bodied as preferences when utilizing Wacom products.

Though there is an perk to opt out of the Wacom Friend Program, it care to be the over-and-above way around. An judicatory as able-bodied as detersion has to be nonparticipating the start; users has to be populist out as the default setting, with the perk to opt in.