Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us...
by ehnto on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:07AM
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> Seems like a pretty wide interpretation of this law.
That was my initial reaction, but I must admit I have since decided that was because it's an inconvenient truth to me. No one visiting mydomain.com should have to assume google.com is going to receive information about them without their prior consent, and there's usually no mechanism for consent prior to loading webfonts or CDN assets.
It is very much in the spirit of the GDPR that all knowledge sharing should have prior consent, and this follows with that.
You can see the industry flailing to compensate for the sudden increase in responsibilities it has been getting recently. It's not a wild west anymore, we should be a mature industry, and mature industries have regulations earned from previous failures to be ethical or safe. That's what I see happening, the industry is getting harder to operate in, but it's just reaping what it sowed.
That was my initial reaction, but I must admit I have since decided that was because it's an inconvenient truth to me. No one visiting mydomain.com should have to assume google.com is going to receive information about them without their prior consent, and there's usually no mechanism for consent prior to loading webfonts or CDN assets.
It is very much in the spirit of the GDPR that all knowledge sharing should have prior consent, and this follows with that.
You can see the industry flailing to compensate for the sudden increase in responsibilities it has been getting recently. It's not a wild west anymore, we should be a mature industry, and mature industries have regulations earned from previous failures to be ethical or safe. That's what I see happening, the industry is getting harder to operate in, but it's just reaping what it sowed.