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Re:Ask HN: How is GDPR affecting your business? by BigMan555 on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:52PM (#17158806)
So you're saying that you are asking consent to store the phone number and email address of a client? And you'll provide clients with the right to be forgotten, meaning that you're prepared to delete their contact information? This seems like overkill.
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Re:Ask HN: How is GDPR affecting your business? by BjoernKW on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:29PM (#17159580)
> So you're saying that you are asking consent to store the phone number and email address of a client?

No, I didn't say that. GDPR doesn't mean that you have to ask for consent in each and every case. If as a business you have a legitimate interest to store client data for a specific purpose you don't have to ask for explicit consent. Being able to contact clients in the future who contacted you first constitutes such a legitimate interest.

As for the right to be forgotten: Sure, why wouldn't I? If they don't want to be contacted anymore and want me to delete their contact info I'm happy to oblige.

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Re:Ask HN: How is GDPR affecting your business? by anothergoogler on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:40PM (#17159623)
Past invoices will have names and addresses, will you shred them? Don't you need them to file taxes?
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Re:Ask HN: How is GDPR affecting your business? by BjoernKW on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:48PM (#17159665)
Existing laws and accounting standards still take precedence over GDPR. Past invoices and accounting entries remain as they are.
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