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>>ANewbu+(OP)
> Mr Capel said: “We have been clear that exiting the UK does not allow an organisation to avoid responsibility for any prior infringement of data protection law, and our investigation remains ongoing.

Block UK access now just in case.

>>nicksl+w1
As somebody from the UK, I think this is a great form of protest against the government.

>>bArray+1c
Wait you're against GDPR?

>>Kaiser+sF1
Of course, I have a brain

>>jobs_t+NH1
I think GDPR absolutely makes sense. It's my data and you must delete it if I ask.

>>bapak+nO1
The GPDR is far more complicated than just that superficial example.

But I'm curious about how far you feel that assertion goes. Ignoring what the GPDR says exactly, how do you feel about the various examples?

I have http request logs from requests that you've made. Do I have to delete them when you ask?

You sent me an email, do I have to delete my copy?

I host an email service for me and a friend exclusively, you request that I delete your data, do I have to delete emails you sent to him as well?

You answered a long thread about an esoteric computing question, hypothetically under the name denvercoder9, do I have to delete that comment? What about the replies to it which quote you?

I have evidence that you committed a crime of some sort, do I have to delete that?

Someone else posted true information about you to my site intended to categorize comments to HN posts. It's someone else data about you, do I have to delete that when you ask?

What if the information is actually false?

Where should the line be drawn, and why?

>>grayha+EH5
You questions, which are entirely valid, are why decent legal education is vital

Common law has the concept of reasonableness.

If you're a single person hosting a simple website, having logs is perfectly reasonable thing to have to check for fraud and other nefarious things.

> You sent me an email, do I have to delete my copy?

Depends who hosts the email server, and is it commercial. Buisnesses need a purpose for holding onto emails, its not reasonable for a non business single person to have one.

> You answered a long thread about an esoteric computing question, hypothetically under the name denvercoder9, do I have to delete that comment? What about the replies to it which quote you?

Thats actually interesting, the only thing that PII is the name, so if the name is deleted thats complying.

> I have evidence that you committed a crime of some sort, do I have to delete that?

There is a specific carve out for criminality.