Court orders websites to stop embedding Google Fonts for GDPR violation
www.thecybersecuritytimes.comA German Court from Munich has ordered a website owner to pay a penalty of €100 for migrating personal data of users. The owner has leveraged the IP address of the users via Google Fonts library without the user's consent.
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I’m annoyed by Google’s omnipresence as a 3rd party and by lazy web developers. I block Google fonts with uBlock Origin anyway and if a website is unusable without them… Well, good riddance.