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A comment on Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or Any EU Traffic Under GDPR. Parent comment

Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An... by joshuamorton on Sunday May 27, 2018 @03:12PM (#17168566)
Maybe, but firewalling an IP range doesn't actually require logging the specific ips. I don't think gdpr has any teeth for information that isn't actually stored.
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Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An... by reitanqild on Sunday May 27, 2018 @03:40PM (#17168732)
> I don't think gdpr has any teeth for information that isn't actually stored.

But if it 1. isn't stored && 2 there is a good reason (e g. be able to block attacks) && 3. it isn't abused for any other illegal reason then I think they are fine, no extra consent needed to store the IP address temporarily.

But then the law has already been followed.

Edit: also I wouldn't expect anyone outside of IT to care if something is "stored" in RAM or on disk. Kn this case that might be a good thing.

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