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Re:Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises... by rustc on Sunday March 02, 2025 @09:24AM (#43230781)
I would not expect any software to share PII collected from my system in a public bug tracker.
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Re:Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises... by bryan_w on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:00AM (#43231746)
Does the law differentiate between pii data or is it just any data?
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Re:Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises... by rustc on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:36AM (#43232147)
GDPR does, but I was only pointing out that this scenario, as presented by my parent comment, is not normal:

> "hey, I need to collect data from your system, and said data will be shared with everyone else publicly in our bug tracker"

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