[wrldos]

Google or Russ Cox's reputation is irrelevant. The idea stands alone. I'm merely crediting him with the idea.

I read the proposal. There is no discussion of the legality of this at all. I'd expect anyone with any level of supposed technical competence to consider this in relation to global data protection. I suspect there has been no legal review as mentioned in the thread because I know how slow the lawyers in this space work and the timeline between publishing this and now is too short to have had a conclusive answer.

As for your point about GDPR, I think if you apply your right to withdraw from opt out data collection and what that entails and then ask how this glaring defect is missing from RSC's paper, then you'll see exactly how much privacy consideration really went into this.

[badrequest]

Can you articulate how this telemetry collection would violate the GDPR explicitly?