The new features are very important for some users, because of their GDPR obligations. They're also spread across multiple top-level menus, making them less discoverable. An admin pointer will help to ensure that users are aware of the new tools and how to find them.
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The personal data export and erasure tools allow plugins to register their own callbacks, in order to add additional data to the export and erasure processes. Previously, these were registered without specifying a constant identifier in the array of callbacks. Using mutable integers makes it difficult for plugins to modify the callbacks of other plugins, though.
Using associative array keys instead provides a covenient and reliable way to identify and interact with another plugin's callbacks.
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In many common Multisite use cases, the network administrator will want to set a network-wide privacy policy -- via the privacy_policy_url filter -- for consistency and convenience. When that's done, the Privacy Settings screen on individual sites becomes unnecessary, and may confuse administrators of those sites when they see that their changes don't have any effect on the policy link in the footer.
Since we can't programatically determine which behavior the network admins would like, the safest default setting is to restrict the ability to super admins, and let them delegate it to individual site owners via a plugin, if they'd like to.
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The page was originally placed under Tools so that it would be grouped with the pages to export and erase personal data, since they're all part of the effort to bring privacy management tools to Core ahead of GDPR's deadline. After more consideration, though, it makes sense to move this page to the Settings menu, since it's fundamental purpose is to configure an option, rather than to facilitate a recurring task. This keeps all of the configuration pages in a single place, making them consistent and easier to find.
Exporting and erasing personal data are recurring tasks, so they still make sense under the Tools menu.
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Insert both the text and tutorial in new policy pages and highlight is brightly in the editor.
Show only the suggested text in the policy postbox.
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In these contexts, "privacy policy" is not a proper noun, and therefore should not be capitalized.
The remaining uses are page titles and section headers, where capitalization is appropriate.
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The previous sentence was gramatically awkward, and using the term "compliance" could accidentally be mistaken by a site owner for a promise by WordPress that their site will be compliant after using the tool, which is not necessarily true.
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Non-wrapping `label`s are more widely supported by assitive technologies. The CSS changes account for the element re-ordering, and tweak the formatting for improved readability.
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Personal data collection is more likely for registered users than casual visitors, and the privacy policy might have been updated since a user last logged in. Those changes could impact the collection of personal data from registered users, so it makes sense to provide a link to the policy before users log in.
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Multisite networks have a variety of use cases, and in many of them single-site administrators are not trusted to take actions that affect the whole network, require making decisions about legal compliance, etc. By default, those actions should require super admin capabilities. Plugins can be used to override that behavior if a particular site's use case calls for it.
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This introduces the `get_the_privacy_policy_link()` and `the_privacy_policy_link()` functions, as well as the `privacy_policy_url` filter.
A new `tests/url/` folder was added to better organize tests related to `get_*_url()` functions. Previously, those tests were placed in `tests/url.php` and `tests/link/`, but neither of those locations are optimal. Placing tests in `tests/url.php` violates the guideline of creating separate files/classes for each function under test, and using `tests/link/` conflates two distinct -- albeit related -- groups of functions. Over time, URL-related tests can be migrated to the new folder.
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See #43850.
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This runs immediately after the data export file has been successfully created, allowing plugins to introduce some workflow customizations. For example, a plugin could password-protect the export file, for peace of mind, even though the CSPRN in the filename makes brute force attacks nearly impossible.
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The primary means of protecting the files is the CSPRN appended to the filename, but there is no reason to keep the files after the data subject has downloaded them, so deleting them provides an additional layer of protection. Previously this was done from `wp_privacy_generate_personal_data_export_file()`, but that does not guarantee that it will be run regularly, and on smaller sites that could result in export files being exposed for much longer than necessary.
`wp_privacy_delete_old_export_files()` was moved to a front end file, so that it can be called from `cron.php`.
This introduces the `wp_privacy_export_expiration` filter, which allows plugins to customize how long the exports are kept before being deleted.
`index.html` was added to the `$exclusions` parameter of `list_files()` to make sure that it isn't deleted. If it were, then poorly-configured servers would allow the directory to be traversed, exposing all of the exported files.
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`rand()` is deterministic and therefore offers much less protection in this context. `wp_generate_password()` is a convenient wrapper around `wp_rand()`, which uses `random_int()` to generate cryptographically-secure psuedorandom numbers.
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