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Re:German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employ... by kamyarg on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:59PM (#25816134)
I see a lot of mentions of GDPR in the comments, but the fact is that the sensitivity of personal information is an older mindset(not only a law) in Germany.

It is called "Datenschutz", and you see people proactively adhering to it, needed some time as a foreigner to get used to how rigorously they apply it, but when I got used to it, felt "safer" knowing whoever handles my data, knows how sensitive it is.

See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenschutz for more information about the history.

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Re:German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employ... by pacamara619 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:13PM (#25817120)
A newer term being heard more often is "Datensparsamkeit". Id est only saving the absolutely necessary amount of data such that extensive surveillance and data abuse isn't possible.
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Re:German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employ... by tleb_ on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:42AM (#25820017)
This seems to refer to the concept of "data minimisation", that can be seen as an important concept in the GDPR. See article 5 § 1.c https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
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