3 ms·
There has to be a EU privacy violation in there somewhere right? Or does that not count for giant EU companies?
by outside2344 1y ago
There has to be a EU privacy violation in there somewhere right? Or does that not count for giant EU companies?
- whatevaa 1y agoGDPR is enforced by country itself and this racket is supported by government, so... You would need to sue whole country.
- Angostura 1y agoIt’s not personal data.
- mvieira38 1y agoLegally, you mean? Because I'd say most reasonable people would say a literal wire on your phone is pretty personal. Location is PID too if they store the data at all
- Angostura 1y agoI misread/misunderstood. Apologies
- zmgsabst 1y agoGPS of your phone and the audio from your phone? How is that not personal data?
- bilekas 1y agoIt's not identifiable info maybe ?
- eptcyka 1y agoIt is.
- bilekas 1y agoAre we sure ? I'm not disputing it, but is geo location alone as a data point covered GDPR ? I'll have to look that up, but as someone else said it's only enforced at EU member state level, however there is another central oversight to ensure it's enforced.
- Fargren 1y agoYes. Personal data under GDPR is "any information which are related to an identified or identifiable natural person". If it's data about a specific person, it's personal data, it's a very straightforward definition. Businesses need either informed consent or legitimate interest to store or process it.
- d1sxeyes 1y agoNot if you have no possible way to identify the person to whom it is related (this includes server logs etc). Theoretically, an event sent to a server with some GPS co-ordinates, with no metadata and no logs stored on the server at all could perhaps be found not to be personally identifiable. This is almost certainly a thought experiment though, the amount of engineering effort required to ensure no logs of any kind could result in deriving the IP address of the user would be high, and they’re probably not doing it (even if they are actually not sending any identifying information directly). You might also find that you have to take special care to avoid creating circumstances that allow inference of personal information. For example, sampling every night at 11pm, you’re very likely to be able to determine an address or approximate location of the subscribers home.
- PeterStuer 1y agoYou realize it is an app on a phone, so the customer is always known, right?
- d1sxeyes 1y agoI don’t really understand this comment. What do you mean that the customer “is always known”? To whom? How?
- matheusmoreira 1y agoThey'll just say they have a "legitimate" interest in the data.