Well in the English version of the Privacy policy it reads. This is not in the French one.

When you use our Services, we may collect "Personal information," which is any information that can be used to identify a particular individual which can include traditional identifiers such as name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and non-traditional identifiers such as unique device identifiers and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.... We may from time to time share your Personal Information with our business partners, resellers, affiliates, service providers, consulting partners and others in order to provide our Services to you. We also permit third party online advertising networks and social media companies to collect information about your use of our website over time so that they may play or display ads that may be relevant to your interests ... We may combine personal information that we collect about you with the browsing and tracking information collected by these technologies. We or the online advertising networks use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests.

Along with the severe amount of bloatware in the latest set of drivers. I for one am not too happy

It could also be a security risk that could be exploited.

NVIDIA Adds Telemetry to Latest Drivers; Here's How to Disable It http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/nvidia_adds_telemetry_to_latest_drivers_heres_how_to_disable_it.html

NVIDIA Adds Telemetry to Latest Drivers; Here's How to Disable It http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/nvidia_adds_telemetry_to_latest_drivers_heres_how_to_disable_it.html

Errr.... that was linked to in the first post mate!

NVIDIA Adds Telemetry to Latest Drivers; Here's How to Disable It http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/nvidia_adds_telemetry_to_latest_drivers_heres_how_to_disable_it.html

lol, you did read post ... 1, and the thread title ?

Anyone being paranoid about this needs to go see a doctor have their head checked.

The title of this thread is inaccurate. It's Geforce experience, not the drivers themselves that collect data.

Well in the English version of the Privacy policy it reads. This is not in the French one. When you use our Services, we may collect "Personal information," which is any information that can be used to identify a particular individual which can include traditional identifiers such as name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and non-traditional identifiers such as unique device identifiers and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.... We may from time to time share your Personal Information with our business partners, resellers, affiliates, service providers, consulting partners and others in order to provide our Services to you. We also permit third party online advertising networks and social media companies to collect information about your use of our website over time so that they may play or display ads that may be relevant to your interests ... We may combine personal information that we collect about you with the browsing and tracking information collected by these technologies. We or the online advertising networks use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests.

This is actually the EULA from the Nvidia website, not Geforce experience. I wont be using their 'services' in that case. This is the Gefore experience EULA GeForce Experience collects data to improve the application experience; this includes crash and bug reports as well as system information needed to deliver the correct drivers and optimal settings. NVIDIA does not share any personally identifiable information collected by GeForce Experience outside the company. NVIDIA may share aggregate-level data with select partners, but does not share user-level data. The nature of the information collected has remained consistent since the introduction of GeForce Experience 1.0. The change with GeForce Experience 3.0 is that this error reporting and data collection is now being done in real-time. I'm still not going to install it, I have no need for it 🙂

problem with all that data harvest and drm running in background it cause stuttering and problems in games and generally slows and bogs your system down on a permant basis i wont update new nvidia drivers for a while now if it was amd people be going crazy but nvidia get away with more people love the brand they just accept it theres alot of unwanted junk and process in nvidia drivers since pascal cards arrived you can winrar the driver remove alot of it just install the driver and physx but on the latest driver theres different driver service -nvidia.exe in system32 which if you disable screws the driver , i use older driver 155 i think you can disable driver service or switch it manual use nvidia inspector make adjustments

but i hope you all know that shadowplay primary function is not recording games... and now you know why to use you need to be connected to the net.... (like microsoft xbox recording, what was integrated in system and noone know about it when win10 was released)

Anyone being paranoid about this needs to go see a doctor have their head checked.

paranoid is wrong word ,if nvidia say ok you have use telementry i say ok i stop buying your cards its called the right to make CHOICES not paranoid, google microsoft they want your data watch there ads for there benefit to make money they dont care about me , if you website service or whatever is FREE it means FREE so people block your ads or telementy its there right and choice to do so, if you dont like people block the spying and data harvest you go behind a paypal wall so everyone is paying for your service or content

Nvidia It is a problem with mandatory login It is a problem not having the choice to disable your data gathering from us Why cant they simply give the customer the choice when installing the driver ? The more crap that comes from nvidia, the more im willing to sacrifice value/performance and go AMD. I would already choose AMD if both where equal on performance.

I dont have any of this telemetry (375.70), but i have never installed Geforce Experience.

This. But people are plagued with paranoia.

It's hardly paranoia. Personally I simply do not like stuff running in the background if it does not need to be. Also if it is running and sending data, I would prefer to be asked first if this is ok with me. Which it would if it is going to improve things by collecting data, but the fact is I wasn't asked and It doesn't need to be running, therefore: disabled. End of story.

Anyone being paranoid about this needs to go see a doctor have their head checked.

Anyone making such a blanket statement is the one who needs their head checked actually. You don't sound very bright making this rather ignorant and loaded statement. You're probably one of these people who installs windows, touches nothing, installs 100 programs and never checks to see if they add startup entries or services, has 200 processes in the background, all default services, then complains when his games run like crap and stutter etc or experiences network issues or whatever else. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being meticulous and minimalist even with today more powerful PCs. But hey who am I to argue with you if you want to let your PC do whatever it wants...but just be aware not everyone is like you and some of us like to make sure nothing happens on our PC without our permission and it's a practice that has served us well. Meanwhile your kind will be whining about problems that were brought about by your own simple mindset of "just leave everything as it is, because I don't understand it, it must be fine, it's running for a reason so I better not touch it. But why are my games crashing and running like crap? " Next time think before you type eh?

I think I'm in the clear. But then again I'm using older drivers. Will re-check when I update the drivers. https://s21.postimg.org/d91ghktuf/Nvidia_Telemetry_CLEAN.png

As long as it's only keeping performance/compatibility statistics without personal identification (and yes, it is possible to do that), it's a smart move.

I think driver telemetry could be a good thing, leaving mine enabled

+1 Agree. Telemetry done right, is good telemetry imo. But it's rarely done right unfortunately and people should have a choice to participate or not.

I did not delete any entries, 375.70 driver - no telemetry. (i have never installed Geforce Experience) https://i.imgur.com/UjkIRTx.png

I actually had the Telemetry on my system still after I uninstalled GFE. But you could add 192.229.210.202 (as seen in this wireshark screenshot) to your hosts file if you do feel autoruns is not enough or you reinstall and the settings revert. http://imgur.com/qHomXe2.jpg

Same here, i stopped caring about data collection. It's what happens all day long even when watching TV, making a phone call, cameras in public etc etc. If you're too paranoid about that you might as well go live as a caveman again.

There's nothing paranoid about disliking your personal information being collected.

I just never understood and still don't understand the rampant "my privacy!!" Wtf are you doing on your PC that's so sensitive? I can give a flying **** if they watch my pr0n habits, surfing and gaming. I feel bad for them, it's a pretty boring, average life. The only time this stuff frustrates me is when it starts effecting performance of a game. If everything is running fine. Watch away. And for the "what about secure info like banks, etc" That **** is sitting there for anyone to hack. If it's gonna get hacked, it's gonna get hacked. Give in to Orwells 1984 already, it's not going anywhere.

I just never understood and still don't understand the rampant "my privacy!!" Wtf are you doing on your PC that's so sensitive? I can give a flying **** if they watch my pr0n habits, surfing and gaming. I feel bad for them, it's a pretty boring, average life. The only time this stuff frustrates me is when it starts effecting performance of a game. If everything is running fine. Watch away. And for the "what about secure info like banks, etc" That **** is sitting there for anyone to hack. If it's gonna get hacked, it's gonna get hacked. Give in to Orwells 1984 already, it's not going anywhere.

people who make money from it are happy with it and with data collection and forced adverts emails trying sell you stuff theres massive amounts of money being made thats why they force it without give you any option to choose what you share or view , google youtube is a good exanple, teenagers on there playing gta for 2 hours a week earning more than a doctor , the money is way too much for what there doing , if they was harvest data for science donate all money to hospitals education charitys i dont think people have much of a problem with it then

Being collected to improve products I am using, fine with that Being collected to share with 3rd parties, not so much (Unless you give me a cut of what you're making from doing that)