Hello!
If an extension uses some server to retrieve some data, and on that server connection logged by server default logger (for example apache log) then this is considered data collection or not?
Thank you.
It’s not about the logger, it’s about sensitive data leaving user device.
As long as you are not transmitting sensitive data, it’s not counted as data collection.
There is a whole table that explains what counts:
Data in the question is IP address. Nothing else is transmitted. It is just simple link request without any attached data.
1.Is user’s IP address sensitive data?
2. Is it leaving user device?
3. Under which options from data_collection_permissions is IP address falling?
I don’t think IP counts.
It’s not listed in the table and I’m pretty sure it’s on purpose - IP and even userAgent string are automatically present in all remote requests.
The whole point of this data collection policy is to help users understand what private data can addon collect.
If half of the addons now lists some data collection warnings about IP, it would just make users more resilient to warnings and they would learn to ignore them.
Most addons in the store should not require any data collection.
IP addresses count if your extension explicitly sends that data. For example, if you make an HTTP request that contained the user’s IP address in a JSON object, then that falls under the data transmission policy.
To put it another way, if you’re just fetching a web page without any special query parameters or headers, then that doesn’t count as transmitting the user’s IP address.