[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40794: WordPress needs a privacy policy

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#40794: WordPress needs a privacy policy
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 Reporter:  johnbillion                          |       Owner:  pento
     Type:  task (blessed)                       |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  4.9
Component:  Help/About                           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch i18n-change needs-testing  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by patrickgarman):

 The privacy page in it's current form doesn't seem to acknowledge that
 WordPress will send data about the site (multisite counts and user counts)
 to WordPress.org. It says more information about the data collected will
 live at wordpress.org/privacy which is not currently live. As a user where
 could I find the full list of all data being collected by WordPress.org
 and what that data is used for? I think if it were to live on a .org page
 that is linked to is a reasonable solution, but I couldn't find a
 reference to what that page actually would look like.

 Also - now that a privacy policy will exist, will there be an opt-out for
 users to *not* share anonymous data with WordPress.org? Or are we just
 forcing them to continue sharing by hiding the off button in obscurity by
 requiring complex filters that most of the userbase has no idea how to
 use.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40794#comment:41>
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