#wordpress 2020-10-07
2020-10-07 UTC
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[kraft] I’m not a lawyer, but our legal team has a lot of experience with the GDPR and the various privacy rules. There’s also a lot of varying interpretations. Our understanding is that we’re within guidelines, though we don’t claim to offer legal advice or claim that anyone’s site is in guidelines, since there are a lot of different pieces are in place. On the issue of third-party embeds, https://wordpress.org/plugins/complianz-gdpr/ i
# [kraft] something we’ve seen used. All that said, more about Jetpack and privacy can be found at https://jetpack.com/support/privacy/ including a tool to help provide text to add to your site’s privacy policy based on what features of Jetpack you use: https://jetpack.com/support/for-your-privacy-policy/
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[chrisbergr] [kraft] Due to the judgment in the case C‑311/18, the GDPR declares exchange of user data based on eu-us privacy shield invalid. This german article by a lawyer https://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de/privacy-shield-ungueltig-handlungsoptionen.html also calls Jetpack explicitly. They do exclude some website operators to this regulation, but it is not safe to depend on that. -And it does not prevent you from lawsuits.
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