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0 pointsgerdesj8y ago0 comments

"This is an 88 page document with extremely dry language"

It starts along these lines after the usual intro:

"The processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind The right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right; it must be considered in relation to its function in society and be balanced against other fundamental rights, in accordance with the principle of proportionality"

I'll grant you that lacks a certain something but the language is compatible with another well respected charter of rights that you should be more familiar with.

FFS, do you not notice the similarities!

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mcguire8y ago· 1 in thread

Don't forget the brilliant and deeply meaningful paragraph 37:

"A group of undertakings should cover a controlling undertaking and its controlled undertakings, whereby the controlling undertaking should be the undertaking which can exert a dominant influence over the other undertakings by virtue, for example, of ownership, financial participation or the rules which govern it or the power to have personal data protection rules implemented. An undertaking which controls the processing of personal data in undertakings affiliated to it should be regarded, together with those undertakings, as a group of undertakings."

Marazan8y ago

Even without any context that seems pretty clear.

bcoates8y ago· 1 in thread

I'm guessing you're hinting at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? It's not well-known or well-regarded in the US.

sebleon8y ago

Sadly, this is true.

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