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Is Elastic going to be punished under GDPR especially given that it's a Dutch company?


Really interesting legal question - "Seems like the ball is with Google at the moment, the exposed data is on their GCP servers. So, they can figure out next steps." is a comment above. How will the chain of insecure infrastructure + the data scrapers + the people responsible for configuration react?


That is a terrifying thought with terrible chilling effect should somebody official would even voice this thought in any way.


Was this an AI-generated sentence?




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