


Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover. With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. We don't think this is worth panicking over, and much of this data collection is what allows GeForce Experience to suggest optimal graphics settings for your PC games.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek.
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This isn't wholesale data collection, but, according to the NVIDIA GeForce Experience privacy policy, includes data like your GPU specifications, display details, driver settings for specific games, the list of games you have installed as shown in GeForce Experience, the amount of RAM you have available, and information about your computer's other hardware, including your CPU and motherboard.

The NVIDIA Telemetry Container (NvTelemetr圜ontainer) service does appear to handle gathering data about your system and sending it to NVIDIA. Related: Relax, NVIDIA's Telemetry Didn't Just Start Spying on You For example, the NVIDIA LocalSystem Container (NvContainerLocalSystem) and NVIDIA NetworkService Container (NvContainerNetworkService) services are both required for using NVIDIA GameStream. It's tough to pin down everything the associated service does, and each likely performs a number of related tasks.
