For those in GDPR jurisdictions, passing IP address and other user information regarding downloads to the Carbon Portal is in violation of the GDPR.
The EU has ruled that even something as simple as loading a Google Font into your webpage is a violation, since it involved passing the user's IP address to the font website without the user's explicit permission. On that basis, logging a download from e.g. the SOCAT website must not include the IP address or anything else, and must be fully anonymous (just the fact that a download occurred).
- I don't know if you want to consider putting a warning to this effect in the documentation
- I understand that the system will record the reporter's IP address as the downloader if nothing is supplied. I don't know if you'll prefer this over just recording
unknown. Having said that, I can understand the appeal of knowing that it was a SOCAT download, even if you don't know any more than that.
For those in GDPR jurisdictions, passing IP address and other user information regarding downloads to the Carbon Portal is in violation of the GDPR.
The EU has ruled that even something as simple as loading a Google Font into your webpage is a violation, since it involved passing the user's IP address to the font website without the user's explicit permission. On that basis, logging a download from e.g. the SOCAT website must not include the IP address or anything else, and must be fully anonymous (just the fact that a download occurred).
unknown. Having said that, I can understand the appeal of knowing that it was a SOCAT download, even if you don't know any more than that.