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"FYI: Microsoft The fact that this is an opt-out vs. opt-in and the opt-out procedure is based upon an env. var. just caused dotnet to fail an externally condu
by chris_wot 9y ago
"FYI: Microsoft
The fact that this is an opt-out vs. opt-in and the opt-out procedure is based upon an env. var. just caused dotnet to fail an externally conducted HIPAA privacy/security audit at a genome testing lab in the backyard of your main campus.
Lucky for us, we were able to convert the runtime to use Mono and get a temporary pass, but this killed the future CIL-based projects with the lab's management..."
Ouch!
- erk__ 9y agoWould you no be able to build a version with the telemetry disabled?
- sundvor 9y agoYeah, not exactly super hard to find the info: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/pull/2145 https://github.com/dotnet/cli/pull/2145 "There is a way to opt-out of the telemetry gathering process by setting an environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT. Doing this will stop the collection process from running. "
- manigandham 9y agoBut why? It's a single environment variable to turn it off. That HIPPA comment raises more questions about their dev practices if they're running dev SDKs on production servers or can't set a single env variable.
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