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Does the GDPR apply to reference managers?
Reference managers are software products that record the details of scientific papers that one interacts with. All academics and many others use them as a crucial tool of their work. Common examples ...
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Does the GDPR cover reference to court proceedings?
On this site many good answers are referenced by real court cases, usually in the form Surname vs. Surname [date] <link to further details>. There also exist documents (example is US so as not ...
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Legality of penalising Russian Oligarchs
What is the legal basis for penalising individual Russian Oligarchs?
Having ill-gotten wealth and dubious friends is hardly unique to Russia, and whilst I can understand with the desire of the Western ...
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What references are available for the GDPR legitimate interests balancing test?
A basis for the processing of personally identifiable data (PII) is legitimate interest. According to the UK ICO data controllers who rely on this basis should conduct a legitimate interests ...
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Create a company to manage my personal domain name
I own a domain name that has the format last-name.com, that is used primarily for personalised email addresses for my family. At the moment, I am the legal owner of the domain name and the ...
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Is an email enumeration vulnerability a breach of GDPR?
I'm a software engineer and I'm often asked to implement version of a user signup flow or login that can be summarised as follows:
User inputs their email
If the email belongs to an existing user, ...
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Selling from UK to EU as a private seller on an online marketplace with no IOSS number - what to do?
I would like to ask a question that relates to this existing question:
Do new VAT rules apply to gifts from non-EU countries?
Suppose I am a private, non-business seller on an online marketplace ...
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Is it legal to exclude customers from your surveys knowing that they might be displeased with your service?
Imagine the following scenario: the company is a service provider. Its service quality is going down lately. They send survey links to their customers a couple of days after the service is completed. ...
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What are the limits of service provision/PII consent for compliance with GDPR?
Most of the internet business model can be described as providing data in exchange for seeing adverts. These adverts are worth a lot more if they can be targeted. The GDPR applies to this, such that ...
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Does the Data Protection Act 2018 in UK require users of a website to explicitly
Now that Brexit has happened, GDPR no longer takes effect in UK.
However, the Data Protection Act 2018 will continue to apply.
With GDPR's Article 6, a website is required to request explicit consent ...
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How far up the chain of internet provision does my GDPR responsibility go?
Say I host a web page on my computer, and you visit that site from somewhere in Europe. The web server on my computer will know your IP address, and I can choose to "forget" it as soon as ...
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Is it legal to sell un-trippable circuit breakers?
About a week ago, the popular YouTuber bigclivedotcom uploaded this video, in which he showed a "circuit breaker", which on the outside seems marked appropriately, but is entirely non-...
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Was the EncroChat Hack Legal? If not, is there a legal mechanism which could allow the evidence to be used?
Disclaimer: I am aware there are a lot nuances within law, particularly within each country, as such this question only concerns the wider EU law and UK law as these are the courts I am interested in ...
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If someone shoots you, whose property is the bullet?
This may sound crazy but it is inspired by What if a spacecraft lands on my property?
The answer there seems to be that you don't acquire another's property just by it appearing in your domain.
The ...
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Is a cookie notice required for analytics?
Note: I've been directed here from Meta.SE
I'm using GoSquared for my website analytics.
I've visited quite a few sites using Google Analytics but they don't have a cookie policy or a cookie banner/...
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