From what I can tell, they go to great lengths to treat this as other sensitive information and go out of the way to not lump it with your personal account other than when you do that by asking for service from AppleCare or registering your Mac. You can also ask Apple if they treat this information as personally identifiable from their main privacy page. ![]() The Console app (in the Utilities folder) can be configured to send your diagnostic information which includes the serial number as well as other information about the hard drive, software and error logs to Apple. Similar notifications are presented when the App Store app needs to verify your specific Mac is entitled to Lion during a restore. When you click the "Check my service." item you will see this alert: You can see this in action from the System Information app: ![]() You can find similar information for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. ![]() You can match the Apple part number to one in the list below to find your model. To my knowledge, each and every time your Mac will send a serial number to Apple, you are prompted to explain this and why it will be sent as well as whatever information is needed. The original packaging might also show an Apple part number, such as MNYF2xx/A (xx is a variable that differs by country or region).
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