top | item 34717212 (no title) gwillen | 3 years ago As far as I'm aware/recall, European privacy laws consider any connection back to a telemetry server to count as "collecting" IP addresses, since the telemetry server learns it (even if they pinky swear not to write it down.) discuss order hn newest ohgodplsno|3 years ago You don't recall perfectly well.Storing IP addresses in logs means that you are now responsible for them, yes. Drop them out of your logs, and you're perfectly fine. rcme|3 years ago I think privacy laws only apply to things that “process” PII. Accepting a network connection is not, in and of itself, considered to process PII. notpushkin|3 years ago Can you send telemetry data through Tor, though? :thinking:
ohgodplsno|3 years ago You don't recall perfectly well.Storing IP addresses in logs means that you are now responsible for them, yes. Drop them out of your logs, and you're perfectly fine.
rcme|3 years ago I think privacy laws only apply to things that “process” PII. Accepting a network connection is not, in and of itself, considered to process PII.
ohgodplsno|3 years ago
Storing IP addresses in logs means that you are now responsible for them, yes. Drop them out of your logs, and you're perfectly fine.
rcme|3 years ago
notpushkin|3 years ago