GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by Nextgrid on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:10AM (#30137328)

You are extremely naive if you believe Google can't infer anything if the referer is missing.

An IP + user-agent combination (both of which are sent) is enough to uniquely identify a typical home user with high certainty unless they're behind a carrier-grade NAT and use a very popular browser.

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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by dlubarov on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:11PM (#30139511)

Let's assume Google can identify the user but doesn't get a referrer. So what? The only information Google receives is that some user visited some unknown website at a particular time. How exactly would that lead to Google increasing its profits?

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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by Jensson on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:21PM (#30140184)

They know users activity hours better that way. At scale that is valuable data.

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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by codethief on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:34AM (#30148290)

But that's still not personal data.

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