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Re:macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years by sudosysgen on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:01AM (#25210604)
It's quite obvious. That way you can't get nailed for breaching privacy.

It's exactly the same concept as the NSA saying that they are only collecting metadata and not doing any spying.

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Re:macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years by user-the-name on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:34PM (#25213292)
It would do absolutely nothing whatsoever for the legality of any collection they might want to do.
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Re:macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years by sudosysgen on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:03PM (#25214263)
Of course, it would. IPs are required data to be gathered. They can be almost all the time correlated with real identities using other requests, but under many data regulation laws they wouldn't be allowed to send personal identifying information that isn't necessary.
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Re:macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years by user-the-name on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:08AM (#25218255)
GDPR would not agree with you there, I gather.
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Re:macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years by sudosysgen on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:04PM (#25225249)
How does the GDPR agree with the collection of personally identifying data that is not necessary to operation?
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