GDPR

As GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is become important even for small site owners, bloggers, that usually does not know nothing about except to write good text. Usually uses some form of CMS and several plugins like Google analytics. Here is a small text related to this.

What is GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law taking effect on May 25, 2018. The goal of GDPR is to give EU citizens control over their personal data and change the data privacy approach of organizations across the world.

The goal of GDPR?

The goal of GDPR is to protect user’s personally identifying information (PII) and hold businesses to a higher standard when it comes to how they collect, store, and use this data.

Is WordPress GDPR Compliant?

Yes, as of WordPress 4.9.6, the WordPress core software is GDPR compliant. WordPress core team has added several GDPR enhancements to make sure that WordPress is GDPR compliant. It’s important to note that when we talk about WordPress, we’re talking about self-hosted WordPress.org (see the difference: WordPress.com vs WordPress.org).

Is Google GDPR Compliant?

Google is committed to GDPR compliance across Google Cloud services. They are also committed to helping our customers with their GDPR compliance journey by providing robust privacy and security protections built into their services and contracts over the years.

Is all plugins GDPR Compliant?

Probably not, if you see that some plugin require access to plugin site, then probably it is not GDPR Compliant. And that is the biggest problems bloggers are not aware.

What data is collected by retro-hardware.com site.

retro-hardware.com does not have registered users,except journalist and retro hobbyists. As far we know server logs time, IP address, request to server. As for CMS software is GDPR compliant and since google is also GDPR compliant as Google analytics is used. All comments are recorded but are released upon approval from author and retro-hardware.com

 

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