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Re:The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war p... by m000 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @06:00AM (#43480490)
GDPR is really not that complex. It's as simple as "if you don't need the data, don't collect them".

The problem is that every other company thinks they are Google or Meta. So they start overcollecting user data, in hope that one day they will be able to generate revenue from them. So they end up with overcomplicated compliance solutions and GDPR consulting fees, but without any actual use for the data they collect.

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Re:The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war p... by username332211 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:36AM (#43481069)
So you think the GDPR isn't very complex. Let's put that to the test.

I need to record names and address across the European Union. What character encodings are illegal for such fields in a database?

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