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GDPR is not relevant to this. It’s not about enforcing copyright on people’s work.

It’s about ensuring that companies only store and process privacy-sensitive information about people which they are given consent to store and only used for the purposes the consent was given.

There is nothing privacy related wrt the author in a public article published worldwide for everyone to read. Clearly outside the domain of GDPR.

It’s not hard people, just common sense. Just treating user-data with respect. Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking it’s harder than it actually is.




However from experience GPDR will also be abused by jobsworths to avoid doing something either through laziness or for more suspect reasons.

Just like H&S and the Data Protection act are abused today.




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