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Generate a Disclaimer explaining analytics data tracking and privacy #3725

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nullnull-00 opened this issue Feb 2, 2013 · 4 comments
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c: Privacy For issues that impact or improve the privacy. Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.

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It would be nice to have some kind of automatically generated disclaimer ("This site uses PIWIK web analytics...") which pays attention to local PIWIK settings (e.g. anonymize IP enabled/disabled). This could be added to the privacy manager plugin in a text area from where it can be copied and pasted into the tracked website.
Keywords: disclaimer

@nullnull-00 nullnull-00 added this to the Future releases milestone Jul 8, 2014
@mattab mattab reopened this Sep 16, 2014
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@mattab mattab changed the title disclaimer generator Generate a Disclaimer explaining analytics data tracking and privacy Sep 16, 2014
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mattab commented Sep 16, 2014

I think the Disclaimer is a great idea to consider separately from the opt-out iframe, reopening the issue, refs #2889

Proposed Information displayed in the disclaimer:

  • Quick explanation that Piwik is a web analytics software storing user actions logs in a database,
  • that the logs are stored for N months
  • (that the server is hosted in country X and data legislation of X apply)
  • (that IP is anonymized when at least 2 bytes are anonymized)
  • (list all data points possibly measured by Piwik)
  • (that DoNotTrack support is enabled in this Piwik ie. display status)
  • (later maybe we could link to a more complete Piwik Privacy policy page hosted on this piwik)
  • (maybe we could display a Privacy Seal for users that have enabled all privacy settings Create a Privacy Seal  #6173)
  • do we care to check config settings such as enable_fingerprinting_across_websites=0
  • ...

This text would be generated by an API and available in any format, but also would be embeddable via a widget in any web page or app.

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mattab commented Nov 17, 2014

Along with #5907 this will conclude our effort to bring Privacy by default in Piwik installs. Moving to 2.10.0!

see also #6160

@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Piwik 2.10.0 , Short term Nov 17, 2014
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mattab commented Nov 17, 2014

from RMS:

I have an public relations idea.

If a site tracks visits through Piwik with the default level of data
collection or less, and does not send any data to any third party,
it could display a symbol sayin "Piwik Privacy".  This would stand
for a certain level of privacy protection, since the only data that
the site would have about a user is

* What Piwik collects, in its default mode, and
* Whatever info the user explicitly gave to the site.

Thus, even if the site commits the worst possibe betrayal.
it can't tell anyone more than that.

@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Piwik 2.10.0 , Piwik 2.11.0 Dec 3, 2014
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tsteur commented Jan 4, 2015

It should be mentioned there that we still recommend people to contact a local lawyer to figure out which information is necessary on a website. Maybe in some countries, such as Germany, they have to put some other specific information on it (and translated). Just to make sure people don't think they can copy/paste this text and everything is good.

@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Short term, Piwik 2.11.0 Feb 13, 2015
@mattab mattab added the Major Indicates the severity or impact or benefit of an issue is much higher than normal but not critical. label Apr 9, 2015
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@mattab mattab removed this from the Short term milestone Apr 9, 2015
@mattab mattab added duplicate For issues that already existed in our issue tracker and were reported previously. and removed Major Indicates the severity or impact or benefit of an issue is much higher than normal but not critical. labels Dec 5, 2016
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 5, 2016
@mattab mattab removed the duplicate For issues that already existed in our issue tracker and were reported previously. label Dec 5, 2016
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