Mojang's Notch is a smart man not just in terms of game design, but also in the management of the company's 20 million or so Minecraft players. The designer has posted an open poll on his personal blog to determine the opinions of his cuboid players. be comfortable with the company collecting different types of anonymized data from its users.
Mojang currently tracks players only when they logins to the game. Notch proposes to track "non-private" information like the length of a gameplay session and the type of OS, whether you are playing in multi-player or single mode, and whether you are using the client or web applet. The community will then have access to the collected data "as usual."
Notch said that the data will be sent "naturally" anonymously. ebookmarks "So it wouldn't contain any details about your session or user name, and it doesn't provide any sensitive information you don't want to share." To be honest, we're fairly surprised that this kind of data wasn't already collected. You can vote here for anonymity data collection or against an anonymity for those who are part of the Minecraft nation.