I disagree wholeheartedly. Privacy-preserving technologies like including privacy-preserving AI (e.g., federated learning, homomorphic encryption) and privacy-preserving data linkage/fusion are really important. They're crucial in my day-to-day work in aviation safety, for example.
And telemetry is important. We have limited resources. How do we determine the number of users impacted by a bug or security vulnerability? Do we have a bug in our updater or localization? Are we maintaining code paths that aren't actually used? Telemetry doesn't magically improve user experience, but I'd rather make decisions based on real data rather than based on the squeakiest wheel in the bug tracker.
We can certainly make flawed decisions based on data, but I'd argue that we're more likely to make flawed decisions with no data.
And telemetry is important. We have limited resources. How do we determine the number of users impacted by a bug or security vulnerability? Do we have a bug in our updater or localization? Are we maintaining code paths that aren't actually used? Telemetry doesn't magically improve user experience, but I'd rather make decisions based on real data rather than based on the squeakiest wheel in the bug tracker.
We can certainly make flawed decisions based on data, but I'd argue that we're more likely to make flawed decisions with no data.