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> As for concerns about user tracking & privacy, that's not generally what these operational tools are used for. I'm not sure that the intended use matters. Un
by AlexandrB 5y ago
> As for concerns about user tracking & privacy, that's not generally what these operational tools are used for.
I'm not sure that the intended use matters. Unless the telemetry systems are carefully designed to not capture PII at all they become yet another channel that must be secured as if they are collecting PII. For example, see Windows 10 telemetry vs. HIPPA: https://hipaaone.com/2015/09/22/windows-10-and-hipaa/ https://hipaaone.com/2015/09/22/windows-10-and-hipaa/
- random3 5y agoThey are agnostic data collection protocols/ systems / libraries. Just like a protocol they could do PII collection and unlikely to prevent that. Ultimately the intended use matters more than the tech. And in this case it seems purposely built to measure performance.
- AYBABTME 5y agoI suspect you're tripping on the flowers of the carpet. Telemetry here is not a word meaning "call home and report user data", it means "telemetry" in the sense that a Mars rover sends back positioning & orientation data back to NASA for control. The usage of this tool is equivalent to having a query engine for application logs, or a statsd server to render graphs. It's just a protocol to see how systems are performing, but a better one than statsd or logs.