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Marcin: /* Privacy Issues */

2021-03-03T18:14:55Z

Privacy Issues

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	To protect user privacy, removing personally Identifiable Information (PII) before sending data to Google is one way, as is anonymizing IP and disabling tracking. Further, to hide tracking one can use a VPN to access sites. [https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/google-analytics-privacy/#:~:text=Google%20Universal%20Analytics&text=This%20is%20not%20supposed%20to,PII)%20can%20be%20assigned%20instead.&text=While%20it%20can%20help%20businesses,like%20an%20invasion%20of%20privacy.]~~. U~~		To protect user privacy, removing personally Identifiable Information (PII) before sending data to Google is one way, as is anonymizing IP and disabling tracking. Further, to hide tracking one can use a VPN to access sites. Indeed, Analytics requires website owners that PII be stripped when using Google Analytics. [https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/google-analytics-privacy/#:~:text=Google%20Universal%20Analytics&text=This%20is%20not%20supposed%20to,PII)%20can%20be%20assigned%20instead.&text=While%20it%20can%20help%20businesses,like%20an%20invasion%20of%20privacy.]

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Marcin: /* Privacy Issues */

2021-03-03T18:11:48Z

Privacy Issues

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	To protect user privacy, removing personally Identifiable Information (PII) before sending data to Google is one way, as is anonymizing IP and disabling tracking. [https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/google-analytics-privacy/#:~:text=Google%20Universal%20Analytics&text=This%20is%20not%20supposed%20to,PII)%20can%20be%20assigned%20instead.&text=While%20it%20can%20help%20businesses,like%20an%20invasion%20of%20privacy.]		To protect user privacy, removing personally Identifiable Information (PII) before sending data to Google is one way, as is anonymizing IP and disabling tracking. Further, to hide tracking one can use a VPN to access sites. [https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/google-analytics-privacy/#:~:text=Google%20Universal%20Analytics&text=This%20is%20not%20supposed%20to,PII)%20can%20be%20assigned%20instead.&text=While%20it%20can%20help%20businesses,like%20an%20invasion%20of%20privacy.]. U

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Marcin: /* Tue Feb 4, 2020 */

2021-03-03T18:09:06Z

Tue Feb 4, 2020

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			To protect user privacy, removing personally Identifiable Information (PII) before sending data to Google is one way, as is anonymizing IP and disabling tracking. [https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/google-analytics-privacy/#:~:text=Google%20Universal%20Analytics&text=This%20is%20not%20supposed%20to,PII)%20can%20be%20assigned%20instead.&text=While%20it%20can%20help%20businesses,like%20an%20invasion%20of%20privacy.]

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Marcin at 16:36, 4 February 2020

2020-02-04T16:36:53Z

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	Michael Altfield		Michael Altfield
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	Michael Altfield		Michael Altfield

	Senior System Administrator		Senior System Administrator
	PGP Fingerprint: 8A4B 0AF8 162F 3B6A 79B7 70D2 AA3E DF71 60E2 D97B		PGP Fingerprint: 8A4B 0AF8 162F 3B6A 79B7 70D2 AA3E DF71 60E2 D97B

Marcin: Created page with "Michael Altfield Attachments 10:07 AM (27 minutes ago) to me, Andreas We intentionally do not use google analytics; we use awstats. I intentionally stripped google analytics..."

2020-02-04T16:36:02Z

Created page with "Michael Altfield Attachments 10:07 AM (27 minutes ago) to me, Andreas We intentionally do not use google analytics; we use awstats. I intentionally stripped google analytics..."

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Michael Altfield
Attachments
10:07 AM (27 minutes ago)
to me, Andreas

We intentionally do not use google analytics; we use awstats.

I intentionally stripped google analytics scripts from our websites as
an important step to de-googleify our sites (using open-source
alternatives and protecting our visitor's privacy from Google). We
looked into Piwik in 2017 as a self-hosted GA alternative, but it had
numerous security issues. Currently, we collect analytics on our web
traffic using awstats.

* https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Piwik
* https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Awstats

> update your registration pages for better
> demographic data

Perhaps we can add any desired missing data points (opt-in) to our
phplist signup page or something similar. Or a distinct survey.

In any case, *before* we ask or collect any of this data, we need to
clearly enumerate all of the data that we want to collect, write down
why it's necessary for us to collect it, and for how long we're storing
it. Then we must update our privacy policy accordingly with this
(required by GDPR, CCPA, etc).

*
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology:Privacy_policy#Newsletters

Michael Altfield
Senior System Administrator
PGP Fingerprint: 8A4B 0AF8 162F 3B6A 79B7 70D2 AA3E DF71 60E2 D97B

Open Source Ecology
www.opensourceecology.org