[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43492: Core Telemetry and Updates

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#43492: Core Telemetry and Updates
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 Reporter:  xkon              |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Upgrade/Install   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by DavidAnderson):

 @azaozz I'm not sure if your thinking is that the GDPR couldn't possibly
 require anything onerous, and that if it seems to imply anything onerous,
 then we must be reading it wrongly? On the contrary... (as I said, WHOIS
 is likely to soon end as far as EU citizens' data is concerned).... being
 onerous is not an unanticipated side-effect; it's *intended* to be a
 revolution, and to place heavy burdens on data processors, to force them
 both to not process anything that they really don't need to, and to make
 sure that what they do process, they do according to strict and onerous
 rules (which is why there's been 2 years for implementation since its
 requirements were published). N.B. I'm neither defending nor opposing the
 GDPR, or the work that compliance with it entails; just trying to be
 accurate about what the reality of the situation.

 So, yes, if 1) you are an entity subject to the GDPR (like the WP
 Foundation is), and if 2) you harvest and process data that you scrape
 from a website and connect it in your data store in such a way that it
 can, through direct or indirect means, be identified with an individual EU
 citizen (e.g. the website has an 'About' page that identifies a specific
 individual), then indeed the GDPR *does* bear upon that. "But that's a
 really onerous requirement" doesn't matter; the GDPR's POV on that - for
 better or for worse, whether I like it or not - is "yes, that's what we
 wanted to accomplish, it seems like things are going well."

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