This completely misses the point, and it's telling that it gets votes. The GDPR does not regulate what you personally know, it is about collections of information outside of your brain.
If a European butcher takes notes on his customers using a paper notebook or Excel, are these different modes of data-management subject to GDPR? That's a pretty relevant question esp. since the article is on a butcher. The entire discussion is on the scope of GDPR.
The IP law is related, it protects some people or companies IP, publishers have to follow it, have to respond to DMCA, people in other countries can go to jail. But people that want the IP laws think that my private data should not be mine and not be protected, because it should not be or because it is not easy. Responding to DMCA claims, making sure to use the right licenses for software and assets is not easy either so why is one liked or at least respected by startups and companies and other disliked?
> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system.
Which makes sense, just keeping customer data on paper instead of in digital storage shouldn't mean you don't have to protect it.
What kind of notes? I am not an expert in GDPR law since I don't track people, hopefully someone here would explain exactly what is PI and what is tracking and if will apply in this exact case.
So if the same butcher took notes about his regulars’ preferences, they would need to be GDPR compliant?