Timeline for How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?
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| Jun 8, 2018 at 21:26 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | The secularization of Christmas and the Santa Claus tradition over the past century+ provides more than sufficient basis to deny any such "religious exemption". Mr. Claus will be required to comply with ALL aspects of the GDPR for his data collection and usage activities. Mr. Claus and his associates are heavily involved in the collection of data regarding society's most vulnerable members - innocent CHILDREN! This so-called "saint" has much to answer for..! | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | DrMcCleod | @Renan The degree of separation between church & state varies widely across the GDPR zone, so exemptions like this are not surprising. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 14:02 | comment | added | pipe | @SEGod He's definitely still a saint, just in another faith - The patron saint of Capitalism. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 12:35 | comment | added | TripeHound | @Mołot "mystical\mythical\fantasy beings" You WHAT!!?!? Take that back! He's REAL! | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 12:33 | comment | added | Mołot | @SEGod that depends a lot on particular interpretation. But we have to relax a little for this question to make any sense at all - of course IRL there is no way GDPR can be applied to mystical\mythical\fantasy beings. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 12:22 | comment | added | J_rite | Saint Nicholas was a bishop. Santa Claus is a non/less religious rework of Saint Nicholas by the not Catholic people of the USA. So I doubt he's still a bishop, (definitely not a saint) | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 7:44 | comment | added | Mołot | @Flater and nothing prevents parents from buying presents to their naughty kids... just pretending it was Santa. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 7:42 | comment | added | Flater | @V.Sim: Only if you assume a 100% coverage rate. If even the tiniest mistake is theoretically possible; then not receiving a present is not proof of being naughty (maybe a delivery error occurred), and receiving one is not proof of being nice (maybe you got the benefit of a delivery error). Furthermore, since Santa doesn't require you to sign on delivery, what's preventing third parties from stealing the presents after Santa has delivered them? | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 6:06 | comment | added | Mołot | @V.Sim but then, it's up to the person who got present to decide if he wants to show it to the public or not. So that's perfectly OK. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 0:06 | comment | added | V. Sim | his list is revealed when we see those who get presents | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 15:04 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | You probably find that Santa checks for any list inaccuracies against the all-inclusive Easter Bunny Visits. Easter Bunny doesn't care if you naughty or nice, and could provide Santa with a slightly updated address field and total regional numbers. They are from the same religious organisation (albeit different departments), but the data was collected under different "given purposes". I don't know if this would be allowed or not. | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 15:01 | comment | added | Mołot | May be, maybe not, this discussion is not really going to improve my answer in any way. Would make good question on Politics Stack Exchange, I guess. | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 14:58 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | Yeah, but this basically makes the church immune to the law, based on a government decision. | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | Mołot | @Renan actually it kinda is separation - state does not interfere with church data usage as long as it really is for church purposes. | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 14:54 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | Ah, the old non-separation of church and state... | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 14:26 | history | answered | Mołot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |