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> Which LLM are you?
> I am Claude, an AI assistant created by Anthropic. In this interface, I'm operating as "Junie," a helpful assistant designed to explore codebases and answer questions about projects. I'm built on Anthropic's large language model technology, specifically the Claude model family.
Jetbrains wider AI tools let you choose the model that gets used but as far as I can tell Junie doesn't. That said, it works great.
Using FA as a CDN is not GDPR compliant, either.
Generally speaking using any public CDN is not GDPR compliant. If you _could_ self host the files, then you can not meet the necessity test required for any of the relevant legal basis in GDPR art 6(1).
Google Fonts and FA are worse, because the personal data is shipped off wholesale to the USA. Neither FA or Google (for fonts) offers a data processing agreement that would make it legal to use.
It certainly includes the items I listed; particularly when linked to an identifier like an IP address.
The US CLOUD Act allows US law enforcement to force Google to hand over data; even if that data is stored outside the USA.
It is highly likely that processing and storing analytics data only in the EU is not enough to "fix" Google's issue here, because the USA still has juristiction.
See the recent Akamai / Cookiebot case.
Personal data is "any information relating to an identifiable individual" (see GDPR art 4(1).
Your IP address, browser and OS (via user agent), the website you visited, the pages you visited, time of visit, the site you came from (via referrer) are all personal data.
If Plausible have put a US owned cloud provider in-front of their Hetzner infrastructure, even if for a legitimate purpose (CDN, DDoS prevention) then that is likely an unlawful transfer of personal data to the USA.
"PII" has a specific meaning, in American law. Sites with references to it are likely not relevant to you, as you are based in Romania. The GDPR is crystal clear that IP addresses are personal data. There is no ambiguity. Depending on how you derive the hash of the IP and user agent, this could also be an "identifier" that may be personal data.
But! There are six different reasons you can legally process personal data. Consent is only one of them. It is quite likely that a website owner would have a valid legitimate interest basis for having analytics. This does not require consent from the user.
The only caveat to that; is that if the analytics needs a cookie (or local or session storage item) then you must seek consent for the cookie.
There are commercial products in this space too (like Maptiler).
I agree with you, that is a serious issue. But that issue is caused by your use of a/b testing, and if you solve that issue with a cookie then you need consent.
The ICO PECR guidance explicitly states that you can not rely on the strictly necessary exemption for analytics cookies.
You could a/b test based on even or odd numbered IP address and not require consent to store a cookie. You can pass the referrer around via query string and not require consent to store a cookie.
However, as you said, there is no enforcement of the regulation so the risk of non-compliance is basically zero :)
So you may rely on legitimate interest to process the data, but you need the consent to store the session cookie to collect the data in the first place.
I wish it was this explicit, but it isn't. EU member states have all interpreted the regulation differently.
Making it harder to opt out than in is explicitly prohibited in the UK and Germany. It is perfectly legal in Italy. In Spain, it is legal to bury the opt out buttons at the end of a 50 page cookie policy.
Full compliance, across the whole of the EU, is exceptionally difficult.
GDPR is not the only regulation at play here. The PECR also applies. You need consent for the session cookie in the public areas of your site. It doesn't become essential until the user logs in, registers, adds an item to the cart, etc.
I bet GitHub covers the vast majority of their target users.
The tree is driven by two Raspberry Pis, four FadeCandy boards, 2048 RGB LEDs and four 60 amp power supplies. It took about 100 hours to plan and build with another 50 hours spent writing the code.
We also made Tetris run on the Christmas tree but the video latency is too high to play that over the Internet :-)