[gdpr-discuss] [article] GDPR: Biggest pain points, now and later

[Winfried Tilanus]

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-and-drafts/

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

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