[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:
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Comment (by pento):

 Replying to [comment:53 samuelsidler]:
 > Did a lawyer choose the wording you committed to core?

 Yep.

 > I have no idea what "as well as other general enhancements" has to do
 with the rest of that sentence. It feels out of place and poor English. If
 I remove the initial part of the sentence, it would turn into: "This data
 helps WordPress to protect your site by finding and automatically
 installing other general enhancements." ... And that's assuming the best
 case with grammar, but is factually inaccurate, to the best of my
 knowledge.

 Yah, I can see how this could be confusing. I'll see what we can do about
 clarifying it.

 > I'm guessing this line was removed because it's not true and the
 information shared with the update server contains personally identifiable
 information. Is that true or was the removal an accident?

 This was changed because "personally identifiable information" has special
 meaning in the GDPR, while also being open to interpretation by the
 supervisory authorities. Once the GDPR has come into force and some test
 cases have been run, we'll have a better idea of exactly what wording we
 can use here, I think.

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