[simion314]

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?

[threatofrain]

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?

How are you about to answer that with US IP law?

[detaro]

Article 2:

> 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.

[threatofrain]

Ah, it says automated. I wonder if that mean manual human input changes things, even manual human input in Excel.

[detaro]

Don't think it does. Basically everything involving a computer probably qualifies as "automated", and an Excel document is probably structured enough to be a "filing system".

[simion314]

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.