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Telemetry should be off by default #4951

Closed g1smo closed 3 months ago

g1smo commented 3 months ago

As a number of european DPAs (Data Protection Authorities) have pointed out, the use of google analytics goes against the european law of privacy protection. You can read more about that here if you want.

Telemetry of any kind should be off by default. Even more so if you're sending data to giant corporate data silos.

It's not hard to make a first run notice of the possibility to turn telemetry on and how to do that.

EDIT: I don't remember where I saw google analytics may have been used to collect telemetry data. I could not find information where data gets stored, whether it is shared with any third parties, who those might be etc. Is there any privacy policy regarding telemetry specifically? I can see from the source code that the data is posted to https://collector.platformio.org/collect but no further information.

ivankravets commented 3 months ago

We moved from GA to our own analytics infrastructure 1 year ago. See https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/commit/cb65bdf22f2013cee5352a6d8f5ecc982fd9a1e4#diff-0c53d0b5772ef2e51a6e610d7d4402004f6dc0c4a1889f18805c04d7a6bdb192