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Re:Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Appl... by Fnoord on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:03AM (#25135404)
Is this actually GDPR compliant as it is?
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Re:Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Appl... by sigzero on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:57AM (#25136218) 

  Homebrew gathers anonymous aggregate user behaviour 
  analytics using Google Analytics. You will be notified the 
  first time you run brew update or install Homebrew. 
  Analytics are not enabled until after this notice is shown, 
  to ensure that you can opt out without ever sending 
  analytics data.
That is from the Homebrew site.
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Re:Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Appl... by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:48AM (#25135755)
If it doesn't ask for consent and stores PII then no, it's not.
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Re:Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Appl... by woodruffw on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:55AM (#25137408)
Homebrew does not and has never stored any PII. You can read exactly what we store here[1].

[1]: https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

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Re:Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Appl... by sneak on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:56AM (#25136202)
It's a Google Analytics client (using curl), so they punt on the GDPR issue to Google, who has a little "scrub client IP" checkbox in GA, which Homebrew has checked.

This is fine, because Google can be trusted to come into possession of your uniquely-identified tracking data, and then immediately delete it, without letting military intelligence log it in the process. They have no reason to share it (other than the legal compulsion that FAA 702 provides) or keep it around, as it would not profit them in any way (other than their multibilliondollar advertising business).

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