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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by mro_name on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:29PM (#30139690)
no, because that's where to visitor want to go by explicit free will. Not so a hidden 3rd party.
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by bufferoverflow on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:46PM (#30139849)
The CDN is a hidden 3rd party, no?
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by jeltz on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:56AM (#30147027)
Yes, but they have a contract with the VPN and the VPN has a data protection officer. Here they just send data to Google and Google has not made any promises to protect the data.
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by mro_name on Sunday January 30, 2022 @03:07PM (#30140599)
indeed.
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