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>(illegal under the GDPR, should be opt-in instead) Anonymized telemetry that cannot be correlated to an individual user, and which contains no sensitive infor
by dralley 6y ago
>(illegal under the GDPR, should be opt-in instead)
Anonymized telemetry that cannot be correlated to an individual user, and which contains no sensitive information, is perfectly legal under the GDPR.
Mozilla telemetry isn't tracking your movements across the web, it's measuring things like "how many crashes are being experienced per 1000 hours on Nvidia graphics cards" and "what percentage of users have addons installed".
- Nextgrid 6y agoAnonymized datasets have been deanonymized in the past so there's no telling how anonymous the telemetry actually is and when in doubt I'd err on the side of caution. The IP address is also being transmitted as part of the telemetry request, and while they can claim they don't log it there is nothing technically preventing them (or an attacker) from logging it which could be a privacy violation especially if you correlate it with the telemetry data.