[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43715: Popup notification for Privacy Policy page

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#43715: Popup notification for Privacy Policy page
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 Reporter:  xkon         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr         |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by xkon):

 **Note for clarification of the ticket as well**: My intention on this was
 to connect the default front-end more with our Privacy Policy page tools
 as everything will be explained in there, not create an actual 'consent
 popup' - a consent per cookie / data handling thing etc popup needs a lot
 of discussion and it will pretty much be 99% intrusive / UI breaking for
 most of the themes afaic so we shouldn't go for it without getting
 feedback from theme authors first as well.

 That being said an extra thought I had instead of going the 'intrusive'
 popup way since any actual 'modals' would again mess with how Themes look
 etc and we don't want to mess peoples sites up UI wise is to just display
 a Privacy Policy page link in the default footers if the Privacy Policy
 page exists.

 This idea comes down to simply updating all bundled themes footers with
 something like `Proudly powered by WordPress. - Privacy Policy`. Or an
 iteration of that.

 So again everybody else could simply use any plugin he likes or any
 preferred/custom way to link to his PP page + create his consent modals
 until we implement something to cover everything.

 **Extra note about the `consents` in general**: In the company I work they
 decided that we won't be asking for consent for each cookie / data gather
 individually. Instead our Privacy Policy / Terms & Conditions of using any
 given website will state all aspects of data collection and everything
 GDPR needs of course but there will be 1 single notification that you
 simply accept 'Everything stated in this page' if you want to use the
 website ( that's why we will be tracking who 'opted in for the whole
 website experience basically'.

 Now I'm not even sure if that's legally bulletproof but it basically
 strips pretty much all individual consents / opt-ins and merges them into
 1 big thing.

 To sum this up: There have been some mockups all over the internet showing
 popup boxes with loads of multi-consent forms so the user has the ability
 to 'accept' whatever he likes etc.

 We ended up to go the way of 'if you want to see this website, well you
 have to accept everything' and that's it.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43715#comment:8>
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