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		babypuncher on March 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Andro... Personal information is a bit nebulous. Do we consider the list of function calls in a stack trace "personal information"?

TeMPOraL on March 31, 2021 [–]

If I sent the stack trace to you, no. Otherwise, yes. It's my stack trace after all.

(Perhaps "private" not "personal" is a better term here, but stack traces can expose personal information too, if they include details about function arguments.)

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