On May 25, there's a new European law called GDPR (in Germany DSGVO) in were users have more rights about their data and Websites have to give more informations.
Concerning blogs, this especially includes the functions of commenting, following, feeds, stats, embedding vids , social media sharing, spam checking and maybe some more plugins (widgets) as data, like the IP-address are stored.
I'm not sure, if personal blogs are also affected. Automattic, the wordpress.com company said, that they would provide plugins to fulfill this law, but recently they said, that someone can't get a needed contract on the free wordpress.com blogs. I also can't disable some functions and plugins on this free blog (unlike wordpress.org).
I will add a legal notice soon, but it's possible, that I have to disable the commenting function and maybe even delete comments or make this blog private. Also maybe removing links in the blogroll, but there aren't many left.
My old blogs on Blogger/blogspot (Google) are also affected. In fact, someone has to write a written letter to Ireland including return postage. Someone also must write his name and address to the blog.
But probably, I will continue blogging.
Make sure to save anything you need and maybe comment and suggest movies.
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