In reply to James.

Ok. Otto cannot or does not want to answer at least one of my questions. But he said sth. important.
It is not useful *to us*.
Nice! To whom are collected data useful then? IF they are collected they CAN be used, e.g. due to FISA. But why, again, are "not useful" data collected at all?

To not answer this question is user privacy ignorant. No allowance checkbox, no removing of fetched data that are wether stored nor used. Ah, and, Otto, it's really not about YOU and whether I believe YOU. It's about user privacy and what it means to Automattic and what that means to users. Matt seemed to be happy with his last key note: about making WP sites more secure by applying letsencrypt.org certs to all wordpress.com sites.

However, this kind of happiness for me overlooks some black holes in WP itself, if we think about user privacy.