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l0rn
1599 days ago
german law doesn't really know "precedent cases". However it looks like a whole new industry of lawyers sueing pages embedding stuff could arise...
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izacus
1599 days ago
Leaking customer data to Cloudflare is also a very interesting question here.
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ar0
1599 days ago
They seem to count CDNs as "hosting providers" and yes, without the necessary legal frameworks in place, this is also a problem if that leaks user data:
https://www.technologylawdispatch.com/2021/12/privacy-data-p...
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blfr
1599 days ago
What about "leaking" the IP to your server provider and all the networks between your user and site?
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greggsy
1599 days ago
If your website requires CF to reliably deliver data to customers, then it’s unlikely to cause much of a stir.
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krehl
1599 days ago
What about using e.g. Webflow? Can I leak the IP address of the customer if I don't know it myself?
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fsloth
1599 days ago
Very good point, the courts in countries with common law work quite differently than where the courts are based on civil law. There is a quite large difference of the two systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
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