I wonder how the recent ruling of the Bavarian state court regarding Google Fonts and GDPR affect Storj and this proposal?

[jammerdan]

@BrightSilence

I think that would probably be enough for a legitimate interest exception.

I would think the same.

[anon27637763]

@BrightSilence

For context in most cases GDPR requires you to use the minimal amount of data to be able to use the required functionality.

OK. That’s a very important contextual legal requirement.

On the topic of IP addresses and p2p networks, there’s not much that can be done about IP addresses appearing at the Ethernet interface of a given SNO’s machine… that’s just how the Internet works.

I suppose a Storj satellite could hash IP addresses and use those instead of IP addresses, but that doesn’t solve the problem of a client IP address showing up at an SNO’s Ethernet interface.

As in most things legal… it doesn’t really matter until it does. And, in the end, the entire legal argument is probably about Big Business maintaining its Bigness while crushing as many upstart entities as possible. So, if the Storj network becomes a threat to Google, I would imagine something would suddenly become a problem.

[tylkomat]

@Pentium100

The browser may send a “referrer” header to Google. Or, the font may be accessed by a different URL for each site.

@Toyoo

Oh, sorry, but there’s quite a lot of information sent in any HTTP request, starting from the HTTP referer header (which thankfully is now limited to just origin, so Google only knows the request came from basketweavingporn.com , but not basketweavingporn.com/underwater.html ).

Google could also set cookies on these connects (right now they claim they don’t, but that’s just what they claim).

Right, forgot about that.

Is still interesting why this case is about google fonts, while there are much more prominent tools (google analytics) which are able to get any information you want.

It should obvious to reduce external sources as much as possible. For security and also page speed. Ugly fonts because of DNS issues

[jammerdan]

@tylkomat

Is still interesting why this case is about google fonts, while there are much more prominent tools (google analytics) which are able to get any information you want.

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[Toyoo]

@tylkomat

Is still interesting why this case is about google fonts, while there are much more prominent tools (google analytics) which are able to get any information you want.

@Toyoo

I suspect Google Fonts were picked by the plaintiff for simplicity. Had they picked something more complex, the scope of lawsuit would be larger, making the process longer and require more effort. Here it’s simple—the only personal data in question is the IP address and maybe some HTTP headers.

BTW, it’s so cute that my post was hidden. Certainly it must have been very offensive!

[anon27637763]

@Toyoo

been very offensive!

My guess is that it wasn’t message, but the wording…

I didn’t flag your comment – but maybe edit some parts out or something.

[Toyoo]

Nah, it’s so fun thinking someone found it offensive that I’m going to leave it as is. Let it be! I only hope that this person will consequently also hide BrightSilence’s post with its quote as well

[BrightSilence]

No worries, I redacted the quoted comment, haha.