On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:04 PM Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2019-12-08 21:12, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> is this still a legal issue if one anonymizes the IPs during > >> processing? > > > > I don't think it matters whether it would be legal. What matters is > > that > > people whose browsers are set to send "Do Not Track" (or who have opted > > out of > > tracking some other way) shouldn't be tracked in any way. > > No visitor of the page is tracked in any way with such stats. > > You get just plain "X access to this page" with maximal country/town > granularity. > > There is no kind of visitor tracking as it would happen if you accept > the piwik cookie.
You'd be surprised at what can be gleaned from server logs - while a cookie or other unique identifier provides quite a bit more detail and certainty as to who someone is, even without that it is certainly possible to combine several details (such as IP address, browser user agent and referrer) to perform tracking of a user while they're within your site. In any event, we already have Matomo/Piwik in place and it works very well, providing excellent visualisation of the information it does collect, while complying with our various requirements. It does mean a cookie banner, but there isn't really another way to do it (as any other approach doesn't allow people to opt out) Log processing would require amending our privacy policy (per the GDPR we cannot process information for purposes other than which we've collected it, and our logs are not collected for the purposes of website statistics), and be additional stuff for us to maintain - not to mention being more expensive to maintain when compared with Matomo as it has to be setup on a server by server basis (which Matomo does not) > > Greetings > Christoph > > > > > Regards, > > Ingo > > -- > Ignorance is bliss... > https://cullmann.io | https://kate-editor.org Cheers, Ben
