I'd suggest opening a LEGAL JIRA to track this issue. It will get the proper 
attention from VP Legal.

Craig

> On May 21, 2018, at 5:03 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> On 20/05/18 20:47, Michael Osipov wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> is there any legal statement from the ASF how to proceed with our
>> privacy policy, especially Google Analytics, from 2018-05-25?
> 
> Legal questions should be directed to legal-discuss@a.o
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
>> 
>> All maven.a.o use GA and I have written a mail to private@maven.a.o, but
>> no one reaction to. Here is a transcript:
>> ========================
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> raising this privately for the moment to assess the current situation as
>> well as how we want to deal with our sites after 2018-05-25.
>> 
>> Most of you might know that EU-DSGVO (GDPR in English) is rapidly
>> approaching and our Maven sites (and likely other Apache sites) are
>> already illegal with BDSG (Germany's privacy law) due to GA. From 25th
>> May it will be illegal in the entire EU. Though, I haven't read the
>> entire regulation, some basic points we don't meet now [1], [2]:
>> 
>> * Ask for user's consent
>> * Anonymizing the IP
>> * Present an easily accesible privacy policy
>> * Provide an opt-out option
>> 
>> None of these criteria are met as of today.
>> 
>> See also [3].
>> 
>> maven.apache.org points for me to 2001:bc8:2142:300:: which is a French
>> IP address.
>> 
>> Any ideas? Is there any special legal dept with the ASF who can take
>> care of and we will implement?
>> 
>> The easiest one is to drop it altogether from site.xml.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://www.kloos.de/blog/google-analytics-die-datenschutzgrundverordnung/
>> [2] https://www.kloos.de/blog/google-analytics-datenschutzkonform-nutzen/
>> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSKINS-143
>> ========================
>> 
>> I do believe that what we do now, regardless ASF top page as well as
>> maven.a.o is illegal in a few days.
>> 
>> Can someone react on? Do I need to raise this with LEGAL on JIRA?
>> I am convinced that there are already hords of laywers who have prepared
>> cease and desist letter for those who still don't comply with.
>> 
>> Does this has to be raised with https://www.cnil.fr/ since the IP
>> address terminates in France?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
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