A German court has ruled that websites that utilize Google fonts possibly violate the GDPR, and the owner of such a site is liable for that.
At first look, this sounds over the edge, but when looking deeper, the court's legal findings are stringent. If a website loads Google fonts, it makes the browser of users load the fonts from Google, thereby compromising personal data to Google.
If the user in question did not agree to this disclosure of personal data to Google (and the site owner can prove that), than it is a clear violation of the GDPR. The user then doesn't know about this disclosure of data, and cannot do anything to prevent this.
Therefore it is advisable that all demo Tiki stuff, including themes, be either stripped of Google fonts, or the fonts should be loaded directly from the site, or the users of such themes be told that the unaltered use of these themes comprises a GDPR violation, which can be fined (for companies) with up to 20 million Euro or 4% of a year's turnover (not profit!), whichever is higher...
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To help developers solve the bug, we kindly request that you demonstrate your bug on a show.tikiwiki.org instance. To start, simply select a version and click on "Create show.tikiwiki.org instance". Once the instance is ready (in a minute or two), as indicated in the status window below, you can then access that instance, login (the initial admin username/password is "admin") and configure the Tiki to demonstrate your bug. Priority will be given to bugs that have been demonstrated on show.tikiwiki.org.
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