Telemetry is enabled by default

[aloshka]

Telemetry should be opt in not opt out after an update.

[vscodebot]

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• Debugger telemetry missing vital information (#46593)

[joaomoreno]

Telemetry is opt out. Once opt out, it is always off though, regardless of whether you get an update.

[TankTheFrank]

@joaomoreno I wander how this "opt out" policy will play out with GDPR for us european users.

Gotta love the double speak though, when on a payroll of a large corporation is "opt out telemetry" when not is "unauthorized access".

What exactly is this "usage data" that you collect, send to your servers and store for an unspecified period of time?

Do you send when I start it up and when I close it? My OS and hardware details? My user name? My email? My name? The contacts from my address book? My credit card information? When I type and how fast I type? What I type? The complete homemade recipe for venereal diseases I just finished writing using VS Code as editor?

[joaomoreno]

Here's a bit more information on telemetry and VS Code:

• https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
• https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting

If you want to dig deeper on specific events, simply search our sources for __GDPR__: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=__GDPR__&type=

Remember that we are open source.

[ramya-rao-a]

@TankTheFrank #17790 (comment) has detailed answers to the last set of your questions

For GDPR related query, please subscribe to #47284. We will update that issue with some answers soon.