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And I disagree. - If it's not opt-in, it's not privacy respecting. - IP is a significantly identifiable piece of information. - Regardless, we have seen that
by deafpolygon 3y ago
And I disagree.
- If it's not opt-in, it's not privacy respecting.
- IP is a significantly identifiable piece of information.
- Regardless, we have seen that as few as 4 pieces of individual data collected about a user is enough to identify someone 90% of the time (https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/with-a-few-bits-of-data-researchers-identify-anonymous-people/ https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/2...)
- Browsers collect far more than 4.
User privacy is no longer something you can tiptoe around - it *has* to be informed and opt-in; i.e. if you slipped into someone's bed at night and had sex with them without consent, was it okay?
- insanitybit 3y agoThe point is that we disagree, not that one of us is right. Mozilla isn't using some objective term, they're using one that's highly subjective. You didn't address the major point I had, which is that they can just drop your IP and not store it. Soooooo, anyway, I'm ignoring the rest of your post because I don't care about the debate, I was just trying to explain that telemetry is privacy respecting.
- eska 3y agoYou didn't address the major point I had, which is that they can just drop your IP and not store it. The point is that you don’t know that and you cannot guarantee it. You just assume the best case. As analogy: is sending your bank password a privacy problem? You argue no, because they could just throw it away immediately, instead of going on a Christmas shopping spree. That's an insane argument to make.