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by hannasanarion 2943 days ago
No it doesn't. Newsworthy information is an explicit exception listed in Article 17, and so is free speech.
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Who decides newsworthy? Their subscriber list is newsworthy if they deem it so.
First, the company decides whether the request needs to be complied with or not, and if the user doesn't like that decision, they can complain to the regulators who may choose whether the refusal is worth looking into.
Regulators.