What do you mean by in house tracking?

BlueTemplar · on Dec 17, 2020

Across Microsoft services like Github, Office365, Bing, LinkedIn, Windows...

mrtksn · on Dec 17, 2020

yes but what does it mean tracking? having an account? keeping a tab of last time you used it?

BlueTemplar · on Dec 17, 2020

Some identifier tied to a time and "place" (service)?

mrtksn · on Dec 17, 2020

To do what exactly?

vrperson · on Dec 18, 2020

Learn at what moment your defenses are down so that they can sell you stuff, presumably. Isn't that the general assumption about tracking?

Or sell your data to interested parties. Maybe if you liked certain GitHub repos, you are more likely to vote Democrat or whatever.

BlueTemplar · on Dec 18, 2020

I'm not sure that the GDPR really cares what is being done with that information? It cares more about who that information is being shared with, and about your consent.