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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:58AM (#17188777)
I think you're conflating GDPR with other laws. GDPR isn't about editorial content, it's about data you collect on your users.
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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:05PM (#17189441)
Which is information you might want to keep and share. So that you can talk about people.

Example: if I want to say Brian accessed my website last Thursday.

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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:20PM (#17189561)
You can do journalism about Brian specifically, but you can't preemptively store information about everybody just in case.
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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:42PM (#17193556)
Then you can't keep information around necessary to defend yourself against defamation.
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