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Re:The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe by ErrantX on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @08:54AM (#1763685)
Well, maybe.

But you're also running a huge risk because if they find you in violation the fines start to get nasty. We had a client in the UK that was providing hit/redirect statistics, including full IP addresses, to German clients. Under the rules that is illegal - they were fined in the region of millions of euros for it.

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Re:The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe by mkr-hn on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @10:47AM (#1764109)
Germany's privacy laws are known and probably available in multiple languages. The concern here is that you might not know the law either because you can't read it, or it only exists when the government wants it to.
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Re:The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe by konad on Thursday October 07, 2010 @04:13AM (#1767176)
> it only exists when the government wants it to

every law is applied like that

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