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If you ask me, this argument is what we in Sweden call "satan reading the bible". I think you're fully aware that the practical result, i.e. what happens in rea
by hnarn 5y ago
If you ask me, this argument is what we in Sweden call "satan reading the bible". I think you're fully aware that the practical result, i.e. what happens in reality, is that as the court puts it:
> The transfer of the user's IP address in the above-mentioned manner and the associated encroachment on general personal rights
Furthermore, the court is correct in stating that:
> The use of font services such as Google Fonts cannot be based on Article 6 Paragraph 1 S.1 lit. f GDPR, since the use of fonts is also possible without the visitor having to connect to Google servers.
Let's not be naive, we all know the purpose of Google offering these fonts for free via their CDN. As the author of a website, I think it's completely sensible that you should be responsible for the decision of embedding these fonts from Google rather than just serving them yourself: you are, in fact, "leaking" the IP addresses of your visitors to Google without their consent.
This is in my mind just another one of those things that have been considered completely normal for a long time, but really shouldn't. A bit like how literally everyone used Google Analytics 15 years ago without really thinking about what that meant for the ethical processing of personal data.
- leobg 5y agoYou’re making a good argument here. And you might just be right. You’re saying that website owners should be legal-politically responsible for typical privacy risks incurred by users if they are using popular browsers. And perhaps that is the right way to go. However, what strikes me is that the court hasn’t even seen this problem at all. Your train of thought - that the request was issued from the user’s browser, but that the site owner was essentially in control because he essentially tricked the user into sharing his information with Google without being asked - is just not being discussed at all. It might be very well that the end result is just. But then it would be a case of the blind chicken finding a grain.