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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by cromwellian on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:02PM (#17159195)
Assuming the remaining data can't be used to deanonymize them. This solution buys into the myth that anonymizing data protects PII.
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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:45AM (#17160440)
"Anonymizing" would be replacing each user's PII with a value that's unique to that user. Instead, you could just blank it out or overwrite with universal "data removed because of GDPR" token.
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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by cromwellian on Saturday May 26, 2018 @04:12AM (#17160817)
That highly depends on the DB used. If you're using a log structured database, it's possible the original data could still be there. Immutable databases that never delete or overwrite entries exist.

And what if the PII is stored in a blockchain? Then what?

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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 26, 2018 @05:48AM (#17161160)
> And what if the PII is stored in a blockchain? Then what?

No clue. But I can't wait for that to be tested, because I'm very curious what the solution will turn out to be.

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