hwi / HWIOAuthBundle

OAuth client integration for Symfony. Supports both OAuth1.0a and OAuth2.
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Compliance to digital privacy laws in Germany and the EEA of Identity Authentication for malicious purposes #1970

Closed srebre closed 7 months ago

srebre commented 10 months ago

Hi,

I'm wondering whether anyone had actually considered if your, let's call it what it actually is, cloud identity tracking for the benefit of data brokers listed on your repository's main page, is compliant to any EEA digital privacy laws, and also specifically Germany [1].

To have any cloud identity tracking, whether federated, WebAuth, OAuth, SSO, and recycled names for the same spyware, one should first have the option to consent and secondly the option to disable, i.e., "opt-out". But your authentication spyware seems to automatically turn on, it got linked to my GitHub account for unknown reason, and seeing posts about logging in to Facebook and automatically getting tracked - I am seriously doubtful that this compliant not only to digital privacy laws, but consumer rights, and human rights.

Your website leads to "fake" European Hardware News webpage, but the privacy policy links to one of several data broker associations. Most of the data brokers that your identity tracking spyware supports are known to me and notorious for being non-compliant and ex-filtrating data and using tracking technology that damages devices. I had in fact suffered this, with persistent cookies, JavaScript cross-website injections and a storm of XHR by Google or Meta.

I'd like a comment about who's legally responsible for your tracking spyware, whether the responsible entity had thought of compliance to privacy laws at all, and where I can file a DSAR, ASAP.

Thank you.

Note to anyone: please refrain from any kind of "retaliation" because you will be reported to law enforcement.

[1] Sadly, privacy policies depend on one's legal residence, i.e., how much can companies exploit you before facing legal consequences. Germany seems to have stricter policies than EEA. But in any case, almost no company/corporation/enterprise/non-profit respects digital privacy laws at all and secretly bypass it. Such practices should be considered whether they are ethical and respectful to users, including yours.