To follow up the Electronic Freedom Foundation article, this notice from WordPress was just posted on the administration page for this website:
“Akismit and Privacy
To help your site be compliant with GDPR and other laws requiring notification of tracking, Akismit can display a notice to your user under your comment forms [that they are being tracked]. This feature is disabled by default; however if you or your audience are located in Europe, you need to turn it on.”
This is information WordPress collects. Now there will be a warning on the website.
Welcome to the Brave New World.
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https://smartmeterharm.org/2018/06/08/new-surveillance-warning-required-for-international-websites-like-this/
