On 7/12/23 19:21, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
1. The GDPR and similar regulations are 100% clear that consent must be opt-*in*. Opt-*out*, as is proposed here, is not consent. Therefore, this change is proposing collecting telemetry *without user’s consent*.
I seems to me that there are two slightly different understanding of 'opt-in':
- data collection is happening automatically, but there is a way to 'opt-out' and turn it off.
- the user is asked for permission, and the default answer is preselected as 'yes'
I think GDPR prohibits the first option, but the second one must
be allowed because it's like pretty much all GDPR-compliant
implementations i've seen
I understand that Michael's Telemetry proposal uses the second method.
Perhaps a criticism of the opt-out approach (even in the second form) results from people believing that the consent at the installation time is not fully informed---that somehow people don't understand the ramifications and amount of data being shared. This is actually makes sense.
Such concern could be mitigated by scheduling a system notification after several weeks or months, with a rough summary of the collected data ( 'we shared X anonymized reports about Y,Z and W'), and offering a link to a telemetry consent dialog.
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