id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 43492,Core Telemetry and Updates,xkon,,"It has been discussed on the #gdpr-compliance and the question had made it's cycle around some other rooms with various replies as well occasionally but it's time to take a final decision. When WordPress requests updates it sends more than enough data needed to actually perform the update. We did a search a bit at some point to take a glimpse of the past and how all those got added in there and why but couldn't find anything specific. There's already a way to modify the call through https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/core_version_check_query_args/ (and may be more as well) but the concept here is to have everything off by default and add a proper UI and opt-in for the Admins to select what exactly they want to send.",enhancement,new,normal,Awaiting Review,Upgrade/Install,,normal,,2nd-opinion,,privacy