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billconan on March 23, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why are law documents (GDPR) so difficult ...

I have 2 concrete questions to ask on this topic:

1. is email address considered personal information?

2. is cookie, in a form of random hash code, be considered personal information?

parliament32 on March 23, 2018 [–]

Yes and yes, as both are "personal identifiers" -- "anything that you could conceivably use to identify a person within a larger group".

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