Wacom

Wacom apologizes over Mac data harvesting, says it doesn’t collect personal information

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 10, 2020

In response to last week's findings by a software developer alleging that Wacom's macOS drivers log every Mac app launched and upload the data to Google Analytics for further analysis, the graphics tablet maker yesterday issued a statement to AppleInsider apologizing for the practice and underscoring that no personal information was harvested from users.

Wacom graphics tablets have been found to log every Mac app you open

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 6, 2020

Software engineer Robert Heaton discovered that Wacom's drawing tablets track the name of apps you open on your Mac along with the time and a string that could be used to identify you.