The shared-metrics doc states that a future remote exporter 'must not
reuse the persistent local identifier by default' and 'requires a
separate product and privacy decision covering consent, identity scope,
rotation or keyed pseudonymization, reset behavior, retention, and
deletion'.
That exporter is now being built. Appendix A answers each of those six
items before any code lands, so the reasoning is reviewable on its own
and survives the implementation:
- consent is a separate opt-in from collection, gated on the PERIOD a
package covers rather than when it was created (a period is split
across packages made on different days, so a created_at gate would
send a period's tail while dropping its head and silently
undercount the first day)
- the transmitted identifier is HMAC-SHA256(local-only salt,
install_id), never install_id itself
- the salt rotates every 30 days
- reset gives a new remote identity but cannot unsend
- local retention is unchanged; send state does not extend it
- there is no self-service remote deletion, and the user -> derived-id
lookup that would enable one is deliberately not built
A.7 additionally records what the outbox directory IS (the user's local
history, not a send queue) because misreading it would have led to
deleting user data on acknowledgement.
Ben Barclay
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