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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by 77pt77 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:47PM (#16477729)
> Sounds like you have a legitimate interest in logging IP addresses for security purposes

European legislation demands this in fact. You have to keep the logs for a few months.

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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by Silhouette on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:14PM (#16477954)
What European legislation is that?
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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by 77pt77 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:58PM (#16478378)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

Apparently no longer in effect (overthrown)

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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by Silhouette on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:07PM (#16478964)
Yes, it was. Also, in case it wasn't clear, that rule only applied to communications services, not your average website.
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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by 77pt77 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:18PM (#16479064)
Anyone running a webmail service for example was subject to it.

Same thing for IRC or xmpp servers

It was actually quite broad.

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