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It’s already a law in Europe. GDPR and ePrivacy. You have to get consent from the user. Having worked for European companies, they take it seriously.

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The assumption that telemetry is not allowed by GDPR is flawed

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-26/

Anonymous telemetry is allowed – and I don’t have a problem with that.

Unfortunately there's no such thing as anonymous telemetry. There are multiple techniques to re-identify scrubbed data, and some [seemingly innocuous] data is inherently identifying.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/researchers-spotlight-the-... | https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymo...

I disagree with your premise (I’ve worked on anonymous telemetry and it can be done well.)

Not every company will do it well. Simpleanalytics.com seems to be one of the better ones.

But it’s still way better than the alternatives which don’t even try to be anonymous.

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