lkrupp: And as mentioned before this process does not send personal information about you or your system to Apple. The App Store needs to know what you have installed and if updates are available.
That's only
part of what was mentioned before. This is what KJK555 wrote:
Outside of some unencrypted data files that are downloaded first, _I cannot verify the content_
_of the data exchanged once the encryption certificates are loaded and the encryption begins._
The unencrypted data files contain nothing more than storefront and product information
and/or links to the actual storefront and product data.
As Kj has pointed out, when it's encrypted we can have no idea what's being sent.
Ikrupp: And by the way there are numerous applications from both Apple and third parties that do exactly the same thing.
Encrypted? And, since the data storeagent sends is encypted, we can't know if they do "the same thing."
I don't have to be "paranoid" to not want some application or process mining my data, whether that data is sensitive, personal or not. There was also some concern in that thread KJK555 linked to that the MAS phones home before login, regardless of whether the App Store is launched or not.