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0 pointsjefftk4y ago0 comments

"by including Google-Fonts-hosted font on its pages, passed the unidentified plaintiff's IP address to Google without authorization and without a legitimate reason for doing so"

It isn't about whether the IP address was logged, but about whether it was sent. Which is an unavoidable aspect of loading a resource from a server.

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johnchristopher4y ago· 1 in thread

My concern is totally about whether or not the IP is logged though and google's vague language doesn't clear doubts about that. On the contrary:

> Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure.

Why does it point this data is kept secure if there is no PI in the first place ?

hedora4y ago

Secure from whom? The mob? China? The US government? Google?

I'm more worried about the last two than the first two. It'd be illegal for them to secure it against US law enforcement, and they don't claim they're secure the data they log against access from themselves.

rossjudson4y ago

Does that mean that any web page that loads a resource from any other location on the web would be fined the same way?

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