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Comment by wongarsu

7 months ago

The GDPR works on the personally-identifiable vs anonymous distinction. Private vs public doesn't really factor into it, or at least only becomes relevant in the nuances.

Personally identifiable data is just a mouthful, which is why people like to misleadingly shorten it to private data.

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