Data leaks: the use of Google in AIOWPS

  • Resolved batteriesInc

    (@batteriesinc)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, under EU Data Protection laws a site owner has to be quite careful about handing off data to 3rd parties without telling visitors, and the use of Google resources is one of those leaks that needs addressing – I already had to remove a theme that was feeding data to Google Analytics without me knowing about it.

    I notice the dashboard tab uses Google facilities for visualisation – is there a way I can disable that, maybe as an option or via a code change? I rather prefer no data going to Google and no fancy graphics than the opposite..

    (yes, I know that almost all WP themes rely on Google fonts, we’re already converting ours ?? )

    Cheers, BI

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  • Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi, one of the plugin developers will reply back to your request.

    Plugin Contributor wpsolutions

    (@wpsolutions)

    is there a way I can disable that, maybe as an option or via a code change?

    No there isn’t any setting or option.
    If you really must get rid of it then you would need to edit the wp-security-dashboard-menu.php file and comment out the following in the set_menu_tabs function:
    'tab1' => __('Dashboard','aiowpsecurity'),

    This will get rid of the whole dashboard tab.

    @batteriesinc, I kind of understand what you are talking about. We don’t send any data anywhere for analytics of storage. The plugin uses the chart API to draw charts and graphs. This is not exactly the same thing as sending visitor data to a 3rd party site.

    As a matter of fact, no user data is used in the chart anyway. Which particular graph/chart are you worried about?

    You kind of have to read the law correctly and address the issue properly. Not just remove everything if there is mention of google API or something similar ??

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