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Re: Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)

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Overbearing legislation applied by unelected representatives is being abused. If only there were technical solutions provided with an assumption of goodwill instead of 88 pages of mandates without such an assumption.

You do realise that the European Parliament is directly-elected, right?

Not by me and I do not consent. My consent does not matter, unfortunately, I must abide. Governments are good at that.

Re: Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a proponent of North American small businesses to just stop doing business with the EU my motivation doesn't stem from the ignorance of the system rather the knowledge if it: the fines will be issued by the relevant authorities of each and every EU state according to their own interpretation. Certain countries might see this as a neat little cash grab opportunity.

I just don't see the EU giving fines to American small businesses. What kind of money could they expect to get out of them? I'm curious though, what EU countries do you think are so desperate for money that they would basically extort American small businesses?

Hungary for sure! (I'm a dual Canadian-Hungarian citizen.)

Re: Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)

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The GDPR does not apply if it is for personal use or for a hobby only. I don’t know how the structure of this forum is set up, but this can be a good reason to run such forums on your personal name.

Where is the exception for hobby projects specified?

Article 2, section 2(c) exempts processing of personal data “by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity”.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...

Re: Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)

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I host a standard FluxBB forum on a stock Debian apache server. Can you please spent 5 minutes to answer that letter for me?

Show me the letter you received and we'll work from this. You might want to get in touch with fluxBB dev to get a GDPR button extracting the relevant data from the database to avoid the pain of building the db query by hand.

Sorry, I was offline. For the sake of this exercise https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce... of course.
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