Comment by pabs3

It isn't true that Debian does not include telemetry; there is the package popularity contest, and also the cross-distro hardware database (but both are opt-in):

https://popcon.debian.org/ https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Database https://linux-hardware.org/

Unfortunately there are also many other privacy issues with many packages in Debian, but we welcome help finding more and fixing all the issues:

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues