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If you are European, this seems fundamentally incompatible with the requirements of the GDPR, unless they have a better basis for processing than consent (which
by jen20 7y ago
If you are European, this seems fundamentally incompatible with the requirements of the GDPR, unless they have a better basis for processing than consent (which I doubt for a site like Hacker News).
- ckastner 7y agoThere is a better basis, one that covers even sensitive data under Article 9. Specifically, the processing is lawful when "processing relates to personal data which are manifestly made public by the data subject" [1], as is the case here. [1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/