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The Terms of Service are coming from inside the house!

I just received this e-mail directly from my Synology NAS, to alert me to a change in its data collection policy. Who is the "our", here?

If a device in my house e-mails me from inside my house, kinda seems like the data it's collecting should also be in my house?


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