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by woodruffw 1217 days ago
Homebrew is not a custodian of any personally identifiable data.
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pdntspa 1217 days ago
Does that include IP addresses? Because I think that is considered PII
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woodruffw 1217 days ago
Homebrew does not store IP addresses, so yes.

You can see the totality of the information stored on the Homebrew website[1].

[1]: https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/

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eddieroger 1217 days ago
From the post:

> Our self-hosted InfluxDB instance does not store either anonymised IP addresses or an anonymised user token so it has additional privacy benefits over Google Analytics.

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