Snowflake automatically collects data about how you use their platform — including performance and usage statistics — and uses that information to improve their products, though they say this won't include your actual stored data.
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Metadata about your queries, workloads, and usage patterns can reveal sensitive business intelligence (what data you process, how often, at what scale), and this collection occurs by default without a clear opt-out mechanism.
Snowflake collects telemetry data about how your account uses their platform by default, including query patterns and performance metrics, which may expose confidential business process information even if not your raw stored data.
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"Snowflake may collect and use data regarding Customer's use of the Services, including usage statistics, performance data, and telemetry data ('Usage Data'). Snowflake may use Usage Data to operate, improve, and develop the Services and Snowflake's other products and services. Usage Data will not include Customer Data.— Excerpt from Snowflake's Snowflake Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Usage data collection implicates GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) (legitimate interests basis, requiring a balancing test against data subject rights), GDPR Art. 13/14 (transparency obligations regarding processing purposes), and CCPA §1798.140 (definition of personal information may encompass usage metadata linked to identifiable individuals or business accounts). The EU ePrivacy Directive may also apply where telemetry involves terminal equipment. FTC Act Section 5 applies to the accuracy of disclosures about what is and is not collected. (2)
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Metadata about your queries, workloads, and usage patterns can reveal sensitive business intelligence (what data you process, how often, at what scale), and this collection occurs by default without a clear opt-out mechanism.
Snowflake collects telemetry data about how your account uses their platform by default, including query patterns and performance metrics, which may expose confidential business process information even if not your raw stored data.
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