Let's imagine the ls command with telemetry. What happens when you make an error like this?
$ ls all-the-pr0n
ls: cannot access 'all-the-pr0n': No such file or directory
Um, what did I just tell the ls vendor? Who are they sharing that data with?
> Telemetry should always be opt-in
Opt in needs to be very precise and spell out exactly what is being shipped. For a lot of command line tools, telemetry is going to create more problems than it is worth.
> I wonder how much of existing telemetry already crosses the "informed consent" requirement threshold.
Let's imagine the ls command with telemetry. What happens when you make an error like this?
Um, what did I just tell the ls vendor? Who are they sharing that data with?> Telemetry should always be opt-in
Opt in needs to be very precise and spell out exactly what is being shipped. For a lot of command line tools, telemetry is going to create more problems than it is worth.
> I wonder how much of existing telemetry already crosses the "informed consent" requirement threshold.
This is the question we all have to wonder about.