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Collection of identifying data also needs consent. It would be perfectly legal to have an AAID and never disclose it to anyone, but that wouldn't be very useful
by anticristi 6y ago
Collection of identifying data also needs consent. It would be perfectly legal to have an AAID and never disclose it to anyone, but that wouldn't be very useful. :)
- kllrnohj 6y agoRight, but they aren't complaining about collection of identifying data. Google/Android (or iOS) isn't collecting the AAID themselves in an unauthorized way. The complaint is purely that the AAID is generated, fully independent of whether or not it's ever used.
- anticristi 6y agoGenerating UUID and persisting them on a device is perfectly fine. However, once you send this UUID to a server (i.e., the owner of the server collects it) without consent, that becomes illegal.