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I didn't know about this project, so I took a quick look around.
I didn't see any mention of Telemetry or Metrics, but I assume they can use this:
https://tails.net/doc/upgrade/index.en.html#automatic
Still, I just gave this a few minutes, so there could be more.
What a convenient way for police to ship you a backdoored version.
Don't worry, the authorities already have the slightly less convenient way to backdoor things. Why make a fake release when you can just include it in the real release for the price of just a little coercion?