The “not affiliated” checkbox and the GDPR

TL;DR The punchline of this post is that the operator(s) of WordPress.org may, through the “I am not affiliated…” checkbox, be breaching Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and that is something of which the board of Automattic ought to be aware. Let me explain. The “not affiliated” checkbox As is well known across the community, on or around 8 October, the login screen on…