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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by jamespo on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:50PM (#18528203)
They'd get sued? Really?
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by scarejunba on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:55PM (#18528243)
GDPR principle d if the business is a person? (I don't actually know)
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by jacquesm on Sunday November 25, 2018 @04:38PM (#18529219)
GDPR data protection rules apply to natural persons, aka data subjects.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by scarejunba on Monday November 26, 2018 @06:43AM (#18532612)
Imagine I am "John Doe, Independent Barrister" and that's my office.
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by hadrien01 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:07PM (#18528328)
How can a business be a person?
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by scarejunba on Monday November 26, 2018 @06:42AM (#18532607)
What if my business is "John Doe, Independent Barrister"?
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by alistairSH on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:57PM (#18528671)
When the court says it is... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corpora...

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by hadrien01 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @03:06PM (#18528718)
The parent was talking about GDPR, so presumably Europe.
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by alistairSH on Monday November 26, 2018 @09:03AM (#18533382)
Corporate personhood isn't only an American invention. The German constitution explicitly grants fundamental rights to "artificial persons". The Italian constitution explicitly calls out trade unions as legal persons.
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