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Genuine curiosity question: Are all analytics a violation of privacy? If brew simply sent a message that said "brew was used" with no PII, would that matter? At
by andrewguenther 10y ago
Genuine curiosity question: Are all analytics a violation of privacy? If brew simply sent a message that said "brew was used" with no PII, would that matter? At what point is it an issue?
- tremon 10y agoAre all analytics a violation of privacy? No, only the ones without active informed consent. Privacy is the embodiment of personal choice, after all.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoHonestly, my reaction to that would be "why the fuck is it doing that", possibly followed by a firewall rule or a comment in the source code and rebuild. I'm annoyed when an application connects to the Internet for reasons unrelated to the task it's performing for me. That said, even a ping to the mothership is an identifying information - at minimum, it already contains your IP address. Whatever additional data may be added to that ping will likely also reveal details about the machine you're using. Personally, I'm not a privacy nut; I mostly don't care - I leave plenty of information about myself around. But the thing is, I'm doing it voluntarily and as a primary function of some service. I don't like when applications exfiltrate data for reasons not related to their purpose.