Title: Plugin: Worried about ethics…
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin: Worried about ethics…

 *  [Sam Rose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samwho/)
 * (@samwho)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-worried-about-ethics/)
 * So I’ve developed a plugin called “LBAK User Tracking”. What it does is log every
   page click on your blog and report it to you in a table (and an optional dashboard
   widget). What I’m worried about is, is this ethical? It tracks a lot of info,
   here’s a list for you:
 * Display name
    User ID User Level IP address Real IP address (attempts to find
   the IP address behind a proxy) Referrer Time of click User agent (gets browser
   and OS info) Page name GET variables POST variables Cookies
 * My main concern is the POST variables… It can log unencrypted login info ^_^ 
   I could stop it logging that but there’s nothing stopping anyone with PHP/WordPress
   API knowledge from just editing the code and making it log unencrypted passwords.
 * Thoughts and feelings?

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