> "Even the fact that a particular piece of software is used by a specific IP address is enough PII that it's covered under GDPR by most viewpoints."
I draw your attention to the link I posted, and the purple background call out box with the exclamation mark icon and the heading "Note" which says: "Application Insights uses the hosts IP address to determine the geographic location. The IP address is never included in the telemetry data or stored in the database."
> "I would simply wish for no telemetry to happen at all without user consent."
I would, too. So did someone on Github: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/15722 "Change telemetry from opt-out to opt-in" where Microsoft said "we felt that by making telemetry opt-in it would bias and limit our telemetry in a way that would make less useful to our users."
I draw your attention to the link I posted, and the purple background call out box with the exclamation mark icon and the heading "Note" which says: "Application Insights uses the hosts IP address to determine the geographic location. The IP address is never included in the telemetry data or stored in the database."
> "I would simply wish for no telemetry to happen at all without user consent."
I would, too. So did someone on Github: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/15722 "Change telemetry from opt-out to opt-in" where Microsoft said "we felt that by making telemetry opt-in it would bias and limit our telemetry in a way that would make less useful to our users."