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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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