Litespeed Cache + GDPR

  • Like a lot of other folks, I’m scrambling to get my and my clients stuff in order before May 25, when GDPR compliance becomes mandatory.

    I’ve seen other WP cache plugins listed for GDPR compliance on this very useful post, and would like to know how LiteSpeed stacks up.

    Do any of LiteSpeed WP Cache’s functions (which seem to grow in numbers like weed in spring, BTW ?? save personalized data, e.g. IPs for logged-in cache?

    Since LiteSpeeds really nice Image Optimization does use an external server/service, I’d expect this to necessitate some sort of signed contract to be legal under GDPR (possibility of photos with recognizable faces being saved on external servers). Do you have any plans for this, or is this something that needs to be discussed with the friendly folks at my hosting company?

    TIA for any insights – and thanks anyway for a really great plugin becoming better and better, if maybe also somewhat complicated.

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  • Plugin Support LiteSpeed Lisa

    (@lclarke)

    Hi @philbee

    Thanks for your nice words about our plugin, and for your question. I’m sure it is on a lot of minds right now!

    We are working on some documentation that will spell-out where LiteSpeed’s services fall in terms of GDPR, but it’s not ready yet. In a nutshell: almost everything we store is local and temporary, and can easily be erased with the press of a “purge all” button.

    Image optimization is also temporary, but it is not local. The IP we use for processing images is the IP for the WP installation, not a personal device IP, so it’s not quite the same thing.

    We’ll be formalizing all of this soon, and will publish it on our blog, and anywhere else we need to spread the word ??

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