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I am not a lawyer nor a security expert but we've decided at the place where I work that unstructured fields which are unlikely to contain personal data—but mig
by realbarack 9y ago
I am not a lawyer nor a security expert but we've decided at the place where I work that unstructured fields which are unlikely to contain personal data—but might in edge cases where a user chooses to enter it—don't fall under the GDPR purview.
An extreme example of this is in hosted email—if Alice writes an email to bob@gmail.com with some of Charlie's personal information, it would be absurd if Charlie could ask Google to remove the email. (Although maybe reasonable if Charlie could request to not have his data used by Google to target him or anyone else with ads.)
- x0x0 9y agoI have to guess this is why gmail stopped (or at least announced stopping) personalized targeting: the difficulty of deciding if anyone on the email is subject to GDPR.