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What private information about your computer is it sending? Browser, OS, screen size, location, ISP. Under GDPR, and the way i see things, none of that is PII.



It generates a unique identifier which it transmits on each invocation. The identifier uniquely identifies the installation of homebrew, linking all of those other bits of data together across time and space.




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