Microsoft .NET SDK is violating the GDPR by collecting your MAC address

5 points by user5994461 ↗ HN

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TL;DR The .NET SDK after 2016 comes with telemetry, enabled by default and collecting the MAC address of your computer when running .NET applications.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.™

I was about to ask you to provide some evidence to support this claim. But I guess I have to do all the work for you huh [0].

From [1]

"Hashed Media Access Control (MAC) address: a cryptographically (SHA256) anonymous and unique ID for a machine."

Perhaps this is what sent you to raise the privacy alarm bells? Now it's time for you to prove how this 'Hashed Media Access Control (MAC) address' is a GDPR violation.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry...

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry...