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by phaer 1615 days ago
> It's not like the enforcers could walk into the datacenter and plug in the usb drive and get the data.

They can ask and/or force a given company to hand data to them in many cases in most jurisdictions.

> Does logging constitute user data.

Logging of user-data? yes

> A much saner approach should be limiting what the company is allowed to do with the data.

GDPR does also regulate what a company is allowed to do with data. The thing is: whether the GDPR applies and is enforceable depends on where that data is stored.