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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 paulgb on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:50AM (#30136225)
Does this ruling distinguish between “does” and “could”, though? Because any CDN could spy if they wanted. Google fonts has a pretty reasonable privacy policy[1]. I don’t read German, so I wonder if there’s nuance here that I’m missing (like, did they find that Google actually was misusing the data?)

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_...

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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by fpoling on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:58AM (#30136297)
Google is a US company and the US government can and do ask companies to provide any data on the servers even if it is against the policy Google has written in that document.
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by paulgb on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:11AM (#30136425)
That’s no different than a CDN hosted in any other country, though, so it gets back to HL33tibCe7‘s point that this seems it would apply to CDNs.
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