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Wait, you said: > I haven't heard of a single case of them being used for user tracking or behavioral analytics. and then you said: > That we will start to s

Wait, you said: > I haven't heard of a single case of them being used for user tracking or behavioral analytics. and then you said: > That we will start to see the potential to harvest these records for analytics… So this can be used to gather analytics of any sort of data, such as spying then? This is still worrisome.

geofft 5y ago
In that sentence, "these records" means "information about how GitHub's servers are behaving," not, say, "user data." It is technically true that such a tool could be used on any sort of data, in the same way that, say, Perl or SQL can be used on any sort of data.