HACKER Q&A
📣 eminent101

Is there a GDPR compliance privacy statement template for small blogs?


Open source licenses has done wonders for individual software developers who want to publish free/libre/open source software on the internet. We don't have to hire lawyers to carefully draft a license that to give away our software for free while protecting ourselves with disclaimers.

Is there something similar for privacy statements that can be used by small blog owners to remain compliant with GDPR?

Assume the blog is hosted on a Digital Ocean virtual machine hosted in EU, runs on self-hosted Wordpress or another self-hosted free CMS with a built-in comment form. Assume it only writes Apache/Nginx access logs, does not have any analytics in the pages, no cookies, no tracker. Only user comments and access logs. Anything handy for such blogs?


  👤 brtkdotse Accepted Answer ✓
> Digital Ocean virtual machine hosted in EU

The Schrems II ruling says it's not enough to have the data hosted in EU since DO is a US corp.

One trick I've seen people use is to move the discussion to a different forum, like posting the article to HN and having a link in the article saying "Discussion on Hacker News".


👤 mytailorisrich
Why do you think you need any privacy statements at all?