Mojang's Notch is a smart man, not only in terms of game design, but also when it comes to managing the company's 20 million or so Minecraft players. The designer has put up a poll on his personal blog to discover the opinions of his cuboid players. feel comfortable with the idea of collecting various kinds of anonymous information from its players.
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Mojang currently tracks only when a player logs into the game. Notch's proposal is to also keep track of "non-private data" like the length of a gameplay session and your PC's OS and whether you're playing in single or multiplayer mode and whether you're playing with the client or the web applet. The collected information would then be made available to the community, "as usual."
"Naturally the data you send will be completely private," said Notch. "So it wouldn't contain any session information or your user name, and it won't send any sensitive information that you wouldn't want to divulge." We're shocked that this type of data isn't being collected in the first place, but we'll admit it. If you're part of the Minecraft nation, you can make your voice heard by voting in favor or against data collection that is anonymous here.