February 6th, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized

Making Google Fonts GDPR Compliant

Google Fonts is a quick way of loading custom fonts on our websites. However the service isn’t GDPR compliant and a company in Germany has been fined for using the font hosting service. Google Fonts has collected free to use fonts from across the internet and host them on their servers. This is a quick and easy way for web designers/developers to add custom fonts to a website. Unsurprisingly though with a free product from Google, they harvest IP addresses of who’s using the hosted fonts.

The GDPR fine was only €100 but the company was threatened with a much larger fine if they didn’t stop using Google Fonts and indirectly providing Google with IP addresses of its customers. Luckily it’s fairly straightforward to avoid the whole issue.

Full article at Intention web design