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Re:German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employ... by ArnoVW on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:33AM (#25820683)
Just because private entities are bound by certain laws does not mean that those laws apply to the state.

The state has other laws that regulate its ability to spy on its citizens.

And if those laws become too cumbersome you can always ask a free friendly nation to do your spying for you, and get the info from them. And then cross your fingers that the judiciary will follow yout reasoning when you are found out.

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Re:German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employ... by josefx on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:01AM (#25821843)
The problem is that citing WW2 as reason when the state is excluded from the laws is nonsensical. In WW2 and later the GDR the state was the bad actor, that private companies are restricted from gathering this information would not have stopped the Nazies.
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Re:German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employ... by ArnoVW on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:30AM (#25822661)
The state does not have different laws because of WW2. It has different laws because it has a different role and obligations than a private individual.

We allow the state to levy taxes, expropriate, imprison, and even kill (war, death sentence) because we have democratically decided that it was necessary for the organisation of our society.

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