# Digression about privacy over OpenTelemetry.jl

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**Created:** [November 4, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/digression-about-privacy-over-opentelemetry-jl/70965 "2021-11-04T12:13:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![ederag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ederag/32/4106_2.png) [@ederag](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ederag)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/digression-about-privacy-over-opentelemetry-jl/70965/6 "2021-11-04T16:12:01Z")

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OpenTelemetry is a merging of [https://opentracing.io/](https://opentracing.io/) and [OpenCensus](https://opencensus.io/faq/),  
as seen from the top of the latter:  
 ![Screenshot_20211104_154156](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/c/2c18ffa2a6bf43ce211d379ea2596f4007f6014d.png)  
Partners and contributors can be seen from the [OpenCensus](https://opencensus.io/introduction/) introduction page.

So while I can believe that for you it “just refers to distributed tracing/logging”,  
it may actually encompass the kind of telemetry that has been [rejected](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-jl-telemetry-should-be-opt-in/42209/401).  
That’s why I’d hope [OpenTelemetry.jl](https://github.com/oolong-dev/OpenTelemetry.jl) to be developed and used in other packages  
with specific caution about privacy  
(it’s the general culture in `julia`, so I’m pretty confident the outcome will be satisfying).

To put in other words: when working on a _local_ machine or grid (_no_ cloud of course),  
I want to be confident that no data is leaked elsewhere.  
For now this seems to be the default,  
which allows to `add` packages without losing time to investigate “privacy policies”.

If packages using [OpenTelemetry.jl](https://github.com/oolong-dev/OpenTelemetry.jl) can still respect that, then it’s fine.

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