Title: Why plugin closed? – answer
Last modified: November 30, 2018

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# Why plugin closed? – answer

 *  Plugin Author [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/)
 * (@dfactory)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-plugin-closed-answer/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I’m Bartosz Arendt, founder of dFactory and a creator of the Cookie Notice plugin.
   
   Wanted to inform all of you that the **reason for closing the plugin was NOT 
   a security issue**.
 * The problem reported by the Plugin Review Team is as follows:
 * “Your plugin claims 100% GDPR Compliance.
 * Sadly, no plugin in and of itself can provide absolute legal compliance. While
   a plugin can certainly assist in automating the steps on a compliance journey,
   or allow people to develop a workflow to solve the situation, they cannot protect
   a site administrator from mistakes or lack of compliance, nor can they protect
   site users from incorrect or incomplete legal compliance on the part of the web
   site.”
 * I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t understand it. Is this a reason to close a
   plugin used by 1 million websites? Is this a reason to expose so many people 
   to stress?
 * We’ll do as they suggest and update the plugin even though I’m 100% sure that
   the plugin can be GDPR compliant itself and the argumentation shows a deep misunderstanding
   of what GDPR is and how it can be implemented.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/).
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/).

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