[josteink]

GDPR is not relevant to this. It’s not about enforcing copyright on people’s work.

It’s about ensuring that companies only store and process privacy-sensitive information about people which they are given consent to store and only used for the purposes the consent was given.

There is nothing privacy related wrt the author in a public article published worldwide for everyone to read. Clearly outside the domain of GDPR.

It’s not hard people, just common sense. Just treating user-data with respect. Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking it’s harder than it actually is.

[walshemj]

However from experience GPDR will also be abused by jobsworths to avoid doing something either through laziness or for more suspect reasons.

Just like H&S and the Data Protection act are abused today.