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=== Privacy === | === Privacy === | ||
A UUID | A UUID is PII. Definition: | ||
"Personally Identifiable Information (PII), as used in information security, is information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person or can be used with other sources to uniquely identify a single individual." | "Personally Identifiable Information (PII), as used in information security, is information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person or can be used with other sources to uniquely identify a single individual." | ||
An stable UUID for a user or user device is always a PII and never anonymous | An stable UUID for a user or user device is per definition always a PII and never anonymous. | ||
It is therefore regulated by European data protection laws and normally forbidden. | It is therefore regulated by European and German data protection laws and normally forbidden. | ||
From a user standpoint, it is irrelevant whether and how Mozilla uses the data, only that the data is sent. There can be | From a user standpoint, it is irrelevant whether and how Mozilla uses the data, only that the data is sent. There can be | ||