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Re:Court confirms that IP addresses are personal data only i... by Matticus_Rex on Saturday May 19, 2018 @08:26PM (#17110497)
The EU is a civil law system, and that's not what regulators are saying now, so that does nothing for us.
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Re:Court confirms that IP addresses are personal data only i... by c3tru on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:06PM (#17110600)
Can you elaborate this? How has an european judgment to the definition of personal data nothing to do with the GDPR?
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Re:Court confirms that IP addresses are personal data only i... by Matticus_Rex on Sunday May 20, 2018 @03:07PM (#17114279)
In the US, we have a common law system, so a court ruling about the meaning of something instructs regulators on the interpretation of what the law means going forward. In a civil law system, judicial interpretation doesn't control how the law is interpreted by regulators.
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