are these features a security or privacy risk?

[mark4]

00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation GNA Scoring Accelerator module (rev 01)
00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake Crashlog and Telemetry (rev 01)

[pietinger]

No.

The Linux kernel will not connect to any server (e.g. Intel) and send (some collected) data. If you want to send some data to an Intel-server you would need an (user-) application doing it. If you dont install such a software your kernel can collect as much as it want ... but nobody uses it. (TBH: If nobody uses it then I always recommend to not install the kernel modules for this ... because it would be senseless).

Do a "lspci -nnk" and check if kernel modules are in use (-> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Overview_of_System_Information#lspci_-nnk )
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[mark4]

[bunder]

For the sake of completeness...

https://edc.intel.com/content/www/pl/pl/design/products/platforms/details/raptor-lake-s/13th-generation-core-processors-datasheet-volume-1-of-2/014/intel-gmm-and-neural-network-accelerator/

https://edc.intel.com/content/www/pl/pl/design/products/platforms/details/raptor-lake-s/13th-generation-core-processors-datasheet-volume-1-of-2/014/platform-crashlog/
https://edc.intel.com/content/www/pl/pl/design/products/platforms/details/raptor-lake-s/13th-generation-core-processors-datasheet-volume-1-of-2/014/telemetry-aggregator/

From what I can tell, the crashlog/telemetry stuff needs a daemon to be running on the host. The GNA is an offload, similar to opencl/cuda/rocm, etc, except it only offloads gaussian type computations.

Cheers
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