Brew commands send data to Google Analytics

Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by andybak on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:09AM (#13036800)

> They can call it "anonymous data" as much as they want, but in the end it's still data transmitted to Google's servers.

You appear to be saying that it's wrong to send any data to Google - which strikes me as an indefensibly extreme position. For example if they were tracking a simple count "number of times anyone anywhere has run brew" and it was stored as a single global integer then it's hard to imagine what issue you could have with it as it's basically no worse than a simple hit counter on a website.

So what are you saying? Surely the problem has to relate to what data is collected?

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by jakobegger on Friday November 25, 2016 @01:43PM (#13038923)

I'm saying that if you make your software talk to Google, don't say that it collects "anonymous aggregate data". The data it sends could easily be traced back to you (by Google).

And after all the Snowden revelations it's very naive to assume that Google (or any other company) will protect your data.

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by andybak on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:22PM (#13040625)

Doesn't that depend on what's being sent? Either it's personally identifiable (or at least de-anonalysable) or it's not. Within reason some things are not of any real interest to anyone.

What is the threat model here?

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