[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43440: Add personal data from comments to personal data export

[WordPress Trac]

#43440: Add personal data from comments to personal data export
----------------------------------------+------------------
 Reporter:  azaozz                      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                 |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                      |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  Administration              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr has-patch 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
----------------------------------------+------------------

Comment (by allendav):

 @azaozz - based on lengthy discussion with my stakeholders, it would be
 better if this feature exported more of the comment row to make the
 exported data actually useful/understandable for the user (and not just
 include the columns that have their personal info in them). So... I’d
 include the following at this point for EACH comment:

     Comment Author Username or Name (comment_author)
     Comment Author Email (comment_author_email)
     Comment Author URL (comment_author_url), if provided
     Comment Author IP Address (comment_author_IP)
     Comment Author Agent (comment_agent), if provided
     Comment Text (or at least an excerpt)
     Datetime (in blog time zone)
     URL (if approved)

 I would NOT export these columns but I would expect the site owner to
 disclose in a site’s privacy policy that they may be calculated
 automatically (e.g. by Akismet)

     Approved/Pending/Spam
     Karma

 And I’d not bother exporting these columns for a comment at all, as they
 won’t be meaningful to the user, don’t contain personal data, and we
 shouldn’t include other’s comments in the export for a given user (so
 therefore we won’t be exporting comment trees and won’t need parent IDs):

     Comment ID
     Parent Comment ID, if any
     Datetime (in GMT)
     Post ID
     Comment Type
     Commenter’s User ID, if any

 I'll update your patch to pull this all in - we'll need to keep the meta
 for a given comment together now, so I'll probably change your array
 structure a bit but we'll keep the de-duplication concept for plugins like
 WooCommerce that adds additional meta data to comments (for product review
 ratings) so the export can keep those items together and cut down on the
 export size a bit.

--
Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43440#comment:15>
WordPress Trac <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress publishing platform