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[alkonaut]

Anonymous/pseudonymous telemetry doesn't necessarily require user consent other than for being polite. If you store PII you do, but if you do that you also aren't really doing anonymous/pseudonymous telemetry to begin with.

[guappa → alkonaut]

As was said elsewhere, since telemetry itself is not a functionality, ip address is personal information and requires consent.

[alkonaut → guappa]

Read the replies elsewhere. GDPR doesn’t care about whether a http request containing an IP is necessary or not. The GDPR is not in any way regulating how or why any PII is “transmitted” out of your system.

[alkonaut → alkonaut]

…at least not if the transmission is within the supervision of the same controller as we are discussing here.