Qualcomm-owned Arduino has quietly comprehensively rewritten its terms of service and privacy policy, and the changes signal a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform. The new documents introduce an irrevocable, perpetual license on anything uploaded by users, mass surveillance-style monitoring of AI features, a clause preventing users from identifying potential patent infringements, retaining usernames for years even after account deletion, and integrating all user data (including minors) into Qualcomm’s global data ecosystem. Military Weird Things and More. Several sections effectively turn Arduino from an open community platform into a tightly controlled corporate service, including intensive data extraction. The most important addition: users are now explicitly forbidden from reverse-engineering or even attempting to understand how the platform works unless Arduino allows it. It’s a profound change for a brand long embraced by teachers, makers, researchers and open-source advocates. Yesterday was a bad day with many systems offline… Anyone invested in transparency, community governance or data rights should read these documents closely. Link: https://lnkd.in/efKSip3e https://lnkd.in/eKDWCZT4 Somewhere an old Yuno is whispering “It’s not my beautiful life”… Forbes did some press-release style “feature” with incorrect information provided by Qualcomm or Arduino, apparently Qualcomm has serious problems with fraud, acquisitions, etc. This was 3 days ago – Former Qualcomm executive sentenced to prison for $180M fraud scheme. @Bill Curtis and Steve McDowell please think again… Looks like Nakul Duggal must be responsible, Qualcomm’s CEO is not in the press release for the sale (and the press release looks like it was made by ChatGPT when you put it through those AI detectors?) Anyhow – Nakul and Ardunio seem to be riding in more than 10 Gulfstreams, which is a puzzle to investors, why so many? And why get a G800 costing over $75 million now…? Arduino has so much funding… US’s Qualcomm adds G800 to corporate jet fleet… https://lnkd.in/ddiCikpf Like, share and subscribe for more DIY electronics and open source news @ Adafruit Industries Qualcomm Arduino Cristiano R. Amon Massimo Banzi Fabio Violante Pietro D. Marcello Mazzonchi Federico Musto (more info) <-- #OpenSource #Privacy #TechnicalPolicy #Hardware #IoT #Monitoring #Qualcomm #Arduino #Makers #InfoSec #DataRights #Terms&Conditions #CloudComputing