Telemetry Policy

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 14 August 2017 22:26:36 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Sonntag, 13. August 2017 11:47:28 CEST Volker Krause wrote:
> > ## Minimalism
> > 
> > We only track the bare minimum of data necessary to answer specific
> > questions, we do not collect data preemptively or for exploratory
> > research. In particular, this means:
> > - collected data  must have a clear purpose
> 
> While from a privacy perspective this certainly makes sense, with my
> user researcher hat on I'm worried that this might severely limit the
> usefulness of the whole operation, at least if changes to what is
> being tracked can only be made with each new major release of an
> application.
> 
[snip]
> 
> So, long story short: While I agree that we should not just wildly
> collect everything we can, being able to start measuring variables
> only on the next release after a concrete hypothesis has been
> formulated about them could really slow us down.
> 
> Is there any possible way to mitigate this issue?

I suggest the same to you as I did to Volker: Contact a data protection 
officer, e.g. the one assigned to the company you work for, and talk 
with her about it.


Regards,
Ingo
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