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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Amazing!
Not really.
Title is misleading. Fonts won’t be shipped by the host or installed in your browser. I They’ll just make a cookie consent banner and if you don’t agree, you won’t get the font. And because blocking fonts means to “break” websites, you’ll consent. In the end you are just annoyed by GDPR.
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.
indeed, the title is missleading.
it’s illegal to embed fonts without a porper consent.
that would be another clear violation, of Recital 42 5 EU GDPR: