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# Request for data collection review form

**All questions are mandatory. You must receive review from a data steward peer on your responses to these questions before shipping new data collection.**

1) What questions will you answer with this data?

Was a 'baseline' ping generated at startup due to a previous session not being correctly shut down, or because the product was correctly backgrounded?

2) Why does Mozilla need to answer these questions?  Are there benefits for users? Do we need this information to address product or business requirements? Some example responses:

* To make the 'baseline' ping (used for computing DAU/MAU) resistent to force-closing on mobile.

3) What alternative methods did you consider to answer these questions? Why were they not sufficient?

Unfortunately, there is no alternative to this.

4) Can current instrumentation answer these questions?

No, we don't know the reason why a ping is generated, unless we add this new information.

5) List all proposed measurements and indicate the category of data collection for each measurement, using the [Firefox data collection categories](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection) found on the Mozilla wiki.   

**Note that the data steward reviewing your request will characterize your data collection based on the highest (and most sensitive) category.**

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Measurement Description</td>
    <td>Data Collection Category</td>
    <td>Tracking Bug #</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>The 'reason' field for the ping will be set to 'dirty_startup' if the ping was generated due to a previous unclean shut down, or to 'background' if it was generated when going to background</td>
    <td>Cat 1</td>
    <td>1599877</td>
  </tr>
</table>


6) How long will this data be collected?  Choose one of the following:

* This will be a permanent part of the Glean generated 'baseline' ping. Alessio Placitelli (Glean team) is responsible for this collection.

7) What populations will you measure?

Depends on the product embedding the Glean SDK.

8) If this data collection is default on, what is the opt-out mechanism for users?

The Glean SDK opt-out mechanism.

9) Please provide a general description of how you will analyze this data.

Depends on the embedding product.

10) Where do you intend to share the results of your analysis?

Depends on the embedding product.

11) Is there a third-party tool (i.e. not Telemetry) that you are proposing to use for this data collection? If so:

No, but it really depends on the embedding product.

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