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Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by OldSchoolJohnny on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:40PM (#17189768)
You don't need a lawyer to abide by GDPR, it's pretty straightforward stuff.
Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by fixermark on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:42PM (#17189790)
Nothing about data storage and manipulation is straightforward.

Is the web server software you're using logging network requests? Are those requests possibly considered PII? Congratulations, you now have to care about the GDPR.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/gdpr-web-server-logs

Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by PuffinBlue on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:12PM (#17190084)
Which is to say you don't have to care much at all, seeing as you do NOT need to inform or obtain consent from users to keep web logs that serve a 'legitimate interest' such as fraud, security or spam prevention.

Obviously if you were in the business of leaving such data insecure for anyone to obtain or merrily selling it on to reap as much dollar from your visitors as possible then you may be in for a bad time.

Otherwise it's just best practice to do what GDPR says anyway in the example you provide.

Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by fixermark on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:23PM (#17190177)
From the top of https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimat...

""" “Legitimate interest” may be among the most confusing concepts written into the GDPR, which is not helped by the amount of incorrect interpretations available when you search for the term online. """

It's going to be up to individual companies and orgs how much risk they want to absorb trying to sort this dimension themselves rather than hiring a professional; I suspect we agree on that. But I suspect quite a few companies will want to soak the cost of having a professional review this stuff rather than trust their own common sense (especially if their common sense is not European-originated but they plan to have European users).

Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by krageon on Thursday May 31, 2018 @04:05AM (#17194745)
It is not risk. If your relevant regulatory body decides that your reasons are not legitimate (and if you definitely are using them to prevent service degradation and don't keep them around forever, I don't see why they would) then they will tell you so you can alter it.
Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by fixermark on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:42PM (#17199464)
Companies hate building business models and practices around "Well, if the regulator's cool with it, then..." That's the very sound risk makes.
Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by mywittyname on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:46PM (#17199500)
This is one of the aspects of GDPR that gets blown out of proportion. You can keep IP addresses in your server logs if you can demonstrate that it's important to your business.

If you can't demonstrate that it's important to your business, then you can mask the IP addresses. This was a very common thing to do even before GDPR.

In other words, compliance in this respect is dead simple. If you need IP address information for a specific reason, then keep them. If you don't need it, then change your log format to omit them or turn on IP masking.

Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by Matticus_Rex on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:58PM (#17189957)
In a few fairly uncomplicated businesses, sure. For everyone else, there's a reason why the privacy professionals listserv I'm on is a constant debate about vagueness in the law.
Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by jgforbes on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:17PM (#17190129)
Funnily enough, GDPR explicitly requires you to have a representative (which for many companies will take the form of a lawyer).

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-27-gdpr/

Re:GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for ... by taysic on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:48PM (#17189865)
The level of expected implementation will only be clear after a year or so.