On 26-05-18 02:12, Ben Cooksley wrote:
Hi Ben,
Unfortunately German law is all in German, so i'll have to find someone to do that for me (language barriers really help...)
Take a look at:
https://iapp.org/resources/article/eu-member-state-gdpr-implementation-laws-...
It is the best source I know for the status of the local laws, some of them even have summaries in English. I did a quick scan of the German law, I didn't see an extension for freedom of speech there.
Historically most of the requests we have had in the case of our mailing lists are when people have submitted nonsense bugs. The response from developers has usually left these people quite embarrassed, and we've historically complied with these requests (as there is no value in retaining them)
Well that are the bugs I look at most before submitting mine! :-D
But on a more serious note: one of the reasons for existence of the GDPR is to avoid social exclusion based on data (the other one is to avoid manipulation). I have no idea how the balance would tip in such a case. When weighing the need for a historical archive against the interest of the 'data subject', then a big issue is how harmful the historical data is, does it lead to social exclusion? The only, totally unhelpful, answer I can give here is: I love to see case law on this.
Winfried