[alkonaut]

If they were entirely transparent about what they transmitted yet didn’t stick to that, then that would be bad.

Similarly, they might have an opt out but not honor it (in the case of Dropbox it wouldn’t be noticeable)

So all those things aside, the interesting discussion is the discussion that assumes they are honest when they say they don’t store any PII in telemetry. That means, for example that the IP isn’t stored.

“Telemetry” as a term means nothing about what’s stored which is why I try to be specific and talk about “anonymous usage statistics and crash reports” or similar. Telemetry without PII tends to be exactly that.