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byElektroschock ( 659467 ) writes:
If these compliance risks were real, the use of these tools would be strongly advised against.
Of course they aren't-
byCharlotte ( 16886 ) writes:
Precisely.
When anyone pulls the GDPR card it's almost always cause they're marketing your private data to everyone and their uncle.
bygweihir ( 88907 ) writes:
Yep. And the GDPR specifically forbids that without informed consent and anybody that buys this data needs to obtain informed consent as well within 1 month. Does not even matter if they cannot identify the person, they have to get that informed consent or any longer storage and any processing (except reliably anonymized) is illegal.
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