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The very best case for Amnesia: veneer of GDPR compliance, maybe survive an audit.

Clients are buying plausible deniability, hedging their liability.

"Yes, we regrettably leaked sensitive data. But we followed all the rules. What more could we possibly do?"

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"Not save my data in illegal ways"

Edit: "Not save my data"

This product is for orgs sharing data.

Even more illegal.

There are plenty of valid reasons to share data, e.g. for medical research among others.

Then get informed consent

That's a must. In some countries this is now automated at the government level, Belgium for instance has an excellent consent mechanism for medical data.

Right. But that still involves anonymizing data.

I'd also point out that there is a huge amount of COVID data being shared at the moment and, outside of vaccine trials, I'd be pretty certain a lot of it is not under any sort of informed consent. (As is true of a lot of population statistics generally.)

Not necessarily, but very hard to do properly.

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