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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by hannasanarion on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @12:42PM (#17189208)
No it doesn't. Newsworthy information is an explicit exception listed in Article 17, and so is free speech.
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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:04PM (#17189434)
Who decides newsworthy? Their subscriber list is newsworthy if they deem it so.
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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by hannasanarion on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:18PM (#17189550)
First, the company decides whether the request needs to be complied with or not, and if the user doesn't like that decision, they can complain to the regulators who may choose whether the refusal is worth looking into.
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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:33PM (#17191490)
Regulators.
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