In reply to Bego Mario Garde.

As much as I want to agree with you. I wonder when people get a paid plan for Akismet/Jetpack…if that is consent. No one reads the TOS of accounts we sign up for.

What about Gravatar?

When you connect Jetpack to your wordpress.com/gravatar/etc…account…………aren’t you giving permission to do this?

Technically speaking WordPress collects your IP.

Wordfence, AIOWPS and other security plugins will collect your IP address. Wordfence has a widget on the admin dashboard that includes the flag of the IP. (flag) (IP).

Any plugin that bans visitors from certain country has to collect the IP addresses of visitors and check that IP address from a list to see if it’s from a banned country.

Any site that I go to and gives me prices in Canadian Dollars (CAD), checked my IP to see I am in Canada.