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Re:How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices by iamacyborg on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:56AM (#31873169)
That would explicitly not be in line with the GDPR. Specifically, it would break 5.1(b) - purpose limitation.

> collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes

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Re:How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices by scrollaway on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:06AM (#31873210)
Data about logged in sessions is generally stored for security purposes.

If a malicious person had access to your account you want to know for how long they had that access for example.

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Re:How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices by iamacyborg on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:27AM (#31873297)
Sure, that seems like it’d be a legitimate purpose, my comment was more a response to this.

> Store it because nobody knows what to do with it?

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