Roon access to personally identifiable core data without user consent

[DaveN]

@Hestepare

If Roon can and sometimes will collect such data it would be useful for the user to know what that data is

Don’t you just need to look at the logs to ascertain that?

I’ve just been through my latest RoonServer_log and it contains the following (this is probably not exhaustive):

Operating system of the server
Build number (of Roon)
Local time of server
The approximate geographical location of my server
My external IP address
Some local network IP addresses
Serial numbers of external hard drives (not sure why they’re needed)
Details about other mounted volumes (Time machine etc)
My Roon user ID
Which, if any, music subscription services I’m subscribed to
My email address
My first name and last name
Info about the various Roon endpoints on my network
Various references to the music I play

There may be more, but I got bored after the first 2000 lines.

@mjw

For instance, an email address, public IP address or post code are PII. However, your play history or artists contained in your library are not.

The logs do not contain PII.

@danny

Personal data is data that can identify you as a person. It is not things like the logs of what your Roon Core is doing.

Unless I’m missing some key point here it seems to me that I can probably be quite easily identified from what my core is doing, because the information is in the logs.

Don’t get me wrong, I have absolutely zero personal problem with this but, like a few others in this thread, I can understand where @Hestepare is coming from.