TE
TechEcho
Home24h TopNewestBestAskShowJobs
GitHubTwitter
Home

TechEcho

A tech news platform built with Next.js, providing global tech news and discussions.

GitHubTwitter

Home

HomeNewestBestAskShowJobs

Resources

HackerNews APIOriginal HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 TechEcho. All rights reserved.

How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?

251 pointsby unleadedover 1 year ago

22 comments

082349872349872over 1 year ago
More worryingly: if Santa knows who&#x27;s been naughty and who&#x27;s been nice, he would necessarily have been aware that the other reindeer had been mobbing Rudolph, but did <i>nothing</i> about it until circumstances made Rudolph&#x27;s talents useful to the North Pole.
评论 #38756322 未加载
评论 #38756490 未加载
评论 #38756346 未加载
评论 #38757152 未加载
评论 #38757388 未加载
jrflowersover 1 year ago
Santa Claus lives off the grid and flies his unregistered aircraft across borders with no use for a passport.<p>Santa Claus is a free man on the land sovereign citizen
评论 #38756559 未加载
评论 #38756555 未加载
评论 #38759187 未加载
评论 #38759097 未加载
zbowlingover 1 year ago
Santa has a cookie notice now that you must accept when he collects the cookies you leave for him.
评论 #38756338 未加载
jerkstateover 1 year ago
My 3 year old asked me how Santa knows when you are sleeping and I told him “metadata” - he asked how he knows if you’ve been bad or good, and I told him, intelligence sharing agreements between five eyes nations. I hope he has a sense of humor about this when he gets older (but he probably won’t remember it)
评论 #38756983 未加载
评论 #38757186 未加载
评论 #38758018 未加载
timbit42over 1 year ago
Obviously, Santa is a timelord who has assumed the identity of Saint Nicholas of Myra. This explains why he can live forever, why he appears differently to different children using psychic paper (skin color, clothing, shape, different names, etc), can enter homes without chimneys (Tardis disguised as a sleigh) and why his sack is bigger on the inside than the outside. The Doctor isn&#x27;t the only timelord who has an affinity for earthlings.
评论 #38756712 未加载
mewpmewp2over 1 year ago
I&#x27;m asking my children every time, whether they consent to giving the Santa their list of actions. If they don&#x27;t consent, they won&#x27;t be receiving any gifts at all. It&#x27;s that simple.
评论 #38757158 未加载
评论 #38757697 未加载
评论 #38756548 未加载
评论 #38757341 未加载
评论 #38756544 未加载
评论 #38758015 未加载
weinzierlover 1 year ago
He does not need consent because of Article 6 (e), which says that <i>&quot;to perform a task in the public interest or in official authority&quot;</i> is a lawful purpose.<p>Also people always forget that the scope of the GDPR is limited. The following three areas are generally exempt:<p>- Personal or household activities<p>- Law enforcement<p>- National Security
评论 #38756488 未加载
评论 #38760016 未加载
mckn1ghtover 1 year ago
This seems like it could fit somewhere in <i>Santa Claus: an Engineer’s Perspective</i>: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~andrew5&#x2F;cute&#x2F;engineer_santa.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~andrew5&#x2F;cute&#x2F;engineer_santa.txt</a>
throwaway892238over 1 year ago
Santa literally performs breaking and entering in every home and nation in the world. He&#x27;s an international criminal. I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s losing sleep over GDPR.
johndunneover 1 year ago
Should I be envious of any parent who had to actually address this one with a Santa believing kid advanced enough to ponder this one!
m0lluskover 1 year ago
Do you have any idea how much his lists of bad girls are worth? The man is a creep.
rectangover 1 year ago
All I want for Christmas is freedom from being endlessly spammed by anti-GDPR zealots co-opting Santa Claus.
评论 #38756526 未加载
chrismcbover 1 year ago
Because he isn&#x27;t in Europe.
评论 #38758148 未加载
ameliusover 1 year ago
Santa never gets any presents, so he doesn&#x27;t care being on the naughty list.
arccyover 1 year ago
that&#x27;s why we give santa cookies (and milk)
评论 #38775138 未加载
tempodoxover 1 year ago
GDPR should reduce Santa&#x27;s workload because presents are opt-in now.
评论 #38756185 未加载
woodylondonover 1 year ago
You are giving the EU ideas!!!!!
评论 #38757307 未加载
tibbydudezaover 1 year ago
Santa has an exemption for all children until the age of 12.
creerover 1 year ago
Above the law?
评论 #38762468 未加载
tzsover 1 year ago
GDPR could also make it hard on the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy. The Easter Bunny at least is probably unaffected.
charcircuitover 1 year ago
Consider he also commits breaking and entering and theft he does not care about the GDPR.
评论 #38760119 未加载
1vuio0pswjnm7over 1 year ago
(2018)