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Originally Posted by ASKER_CZ
I store more than 700k unique players in my database including IP, city, steamID, steam name. No one gives a f*ck. Unless you are extra-known
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This is a bad attitude to have if you're serving any players in the European Union and collect data on your players such as IP addresses, as well as make money from your servers. Failed compliance *can* result in criminal charges as well as fines up to 4% of your companies profits. 4% may not seem like much but there are potential criminal consequences as well and this is a very serious law going into effect for EU. This is why Valve, FaceIT, and every other company on the planet are now giving away countless bits of information they had stored on us because they had to get in compliance.
The 3 big points of GDPR for us server ops are:
- notifying players that data is being collected to personalize their experience
- giving them the option to consent or opt out
- having a clear way of customers (players) being able to contact you to receive ALL data you have collected on them.
Community owners need their website's privacy policies updated if they store any personal information on their players (IP address, among other things, falls into this category). If you serve ads of your own (adsense, for example), you will also need something similar to the 'Cookie Consent' slide up at the bottom of your page to notify that you and/or your third party advertisers are collecting data in order to personalize your ad or server experience.
You would also have to provide some kind of reasonable contact information (email address, for example) for players to be able to contact you and receive all of their stored information in a reasonable time frame.
It is highly unlikely many will be affected by this, but it definitely applies to most larger communities because they collect a lot of data and often serve their own ads. If your player base is mostly in EU, it is in your best interest to get in compliance. It only takes a few idiots to report you and cause you a problem. Save yourself the trouble. This went into effect May 25th so the game has already started. Google offers some great tips on getting your site into complaince. Google something like "Adsense GDPR compliance".