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A comment on GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts. Parent comment

Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by izacus on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:37AM (#30136121)
IP Address is far from "extremely sensitive user data". Really.
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by freemint on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:02AM (#30136338)
Giving an IP Address to Google including referrer header is. They can do a lot with this and as long as the Google Font hosting service doesn't give out assurances (they can be sued for for breaking) that this data is not used in any way which would enable Google to track a person.
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