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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Towards Formalizing the GDPR's Notion of Singling Out · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1904.06009/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1904.06009/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Towards Formalizing the GDPR's Notion of Singling Out — mentioned by CaptainNegative</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30800300</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1904.06009:30800300</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:08:40 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;A high level overview may be possible, but any amount of actionable detail is impossible for laymen and lawyers alike. The GDPR is intentionally vague; there are entire academic papers from respected researches dedicated to trying to parse individual sentences from the document. See e.g. Cohen and Nissim&amp;#x27;s 33 page article on intepreting the sentence &amp;gt; To determine whether a natural person is identifiable account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1904.06009/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CY</category></item></channel></rss>
