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by icebraining 2697 days ago
The GDPR says "'personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person". So as long as this derived data is directly related to a person, the GDPR applies.

More explicitly, the UK's regulator says: "You should however note that if this ‘inferred’ or ‘derived’ data is personal data, you still need to provide it to an individual if they make a subject access request."

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Huh, thanks for that. So e.g. LinkedIn not providing any information on (say) emails they've scraped seems blatantly illegal too?