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Legitimate interests are a potential backdoor to keep/sell customer data in the event of bankruptcy or ownership transfer. Provided legitimate interest can be a
by groestl 7y ago
Legitimate interests are a potential backdoor to keep/sell customer data in the event of bankruptcy or ownership transfer. Provided legitimate interest can be argued, this would still be GDPR compliant. Given the potential value of the data, it's extremely unlikely that noone would try that in court, and before a final decision is made (which could take years), nothing would be deleted.
- groestl 7y agoTo the downvoters: note that I don't argue that it's actually a legitimate interest with respect to the GDPR, only that a third party looking to acquire (parts of) Google is likely to find it worthwile pursuing the chance that it is. This setup will lead to data being retained for longer than a couple of days.