Hi all,
Just wonder if it is legally or morally sound to implant a phone home functionality within an application without the user's knowledge. The purpose of this functionality is to gather who and how many people installed your application.
The phone home functionality is basically an outbound SMTP email to the author with the collected hostname and IP address of the machine installed with the application. Secondly, let's assume you disclaimed the phone home functionality to the user when they install the application, would it then has the adequacy of morally and legality?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Iat