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>many other complex laws

It takes 30 seconds to find out whether your identifier violates a trademark. Your content is trivially not a copyright violation if you created it yourself. Hobby projects are not debating the finer points of fair use and whether the conflicting name is for a sufficiently different kind of business to avoid confusion. But every HTTP server handles personal data, and a web-based tool with a database backend especially so, so all the subtlety of GDPR is in play.




> But every HTTP server handles personal data

But not all of them have a good reason to log it. /dev/null


Hard disagree. Abuse prevention, performance metrics. Httpd logs are a basic and necessary tool.




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