>German children banned from sending their Christmas wishlists to Santa ...because it breaks EU's privacy laws
>A German town has ditched its traditional ceremony where children hang their Christmas wishlists on a tree in the market – blaming new EU privacy laws.
>Children in Roth, Bavaria, were said to be heartbroken after council officials ruled they can no longer leave their public letters to Santa.
>The council lawyer said Brussels red tape introduced in May had left them with no choice to avoid risking a fine.
It's so heart warming to see grown men all over the world care for German children being able to properly enjoy Christmas.
I mean go fuck yourself you fucking hypocrites.
sueddeutsche.de/bayern/neue-verordnung-das-christkind-und-der-datenschutz-1.4225861 DeepL translation of relevant part: A solution was also found for the wish tree at the Christkindlesmarkt in Roth, Franconia, where children could hang wish lists on the tree, which were then passed on to sponsors for fulfillment. The campaign "christmas tree big" was already in the room, but then the all-clear was given. To protect the children's data, a closed box with a slot is now available in Roth, and there are also wish forms with fields for parental consent forms for data transfer. Even the EU Commission or at least its Munich office already saw themselves there, or at least their Munich office saw the EU.
Mason Perez
>I mean go fuck yourself you fucking hypocrites.
Who's the hypocrite?
Christian Garcia
This is what germany needs, these angry kids will grow up to be future eu haters. Christmas spirits will be on lows, and soo the 4th reich will happen.
Angel Gonzalez
How about just break the law and pay the fine? Set an example that if you make bullshit laws like this they will simply be ignored.
Hunter Cruz
Here's a thought. Someone should go to the market, put up a tree, put letters on the tree, and on each letter have a picture of a large EU flag with the words WARNING!! UNDER ARTICLE "whatever" THIS CHILDS LETTER TO SANTA HAS BEEN CENSORED BY THE EU in bright red letters
Landon Wilson
Not a bad idea really to have kids avoid posting their addresses in public
Landon Morgan
And then that money goes straight into some muds pocket.
>no u Fuck you moron. It's even in the Daily Mail article that it's not a real problem and that they will continue the event as before. You're fake news.
Jayden Lopez
>Eternal Germoni raging
The EU is fake news.
>The council lawyer said Brussels red tape introduced in May had left them with no choice to avoid risking a fine.
>This is because the tradition involves children writing details including their name, age and address so that Father Christmas knows where to deliver their presents.
>But under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the local authority must obtain written permission from the parents of the 4,000 children who usually take part, making it clear their data could be shared with third parties.
Kayden Bennett
Didn't you read past the picture fuckwit?
>However, last night local radio station Antenna Bayern said it has worked with experts to create a GDPR-compliant form in a bid to save the event.
>But a European Commission spokesman said Roth’s interpretation of the GDPR rules had been in ‘no way’ correct.
>They said: ‘Santa Claus should have the contact details of a family in order to deliver the presents indicated on the wish list he received – provided the parents agree, in the case of minors.'
>‘These have been the rules for the past 20 years and the General Data Protection Regulation has not changed this situation.’
So two of them say different things, which is telling the truth?
The council has no reason to make things up. The EU however has every reason to try to save face and say 'oh no no no there is no regulation like that' once the story has blown up exposing the tyranny of the EUSSR.
Austin Jackson
Or they'll grow up thinking Christmas is a terrible outdated tradition. After all, the party has determined it so! Only a real backwards kind of bigot would try to celebrate such things :^)!
Luke Taylor
Yeah right, there's always some cheap asshole playing dumb, ignoring everything that has been posted already and getting things back on track, right? Eat shit, cunt.
Jason Reed
Merkel will send in the riot squad for such things. That's 20 years in prison.
Jeremiah Harris
Just say Happy Hanukkah = 88 =Heil Hitler
Jaxon Evans
>contents of the wishes including addresses are sold to 3rd party advertising companies >without notice >this has been illegal since the 80ies >only now they are afraid to get fined >so they stop it instead of putting on a notice that your addresses and the wishes of your kids are in fact sold to advertising companies
Luke Nelson
you think they have a choice? the tree probably gets swarmed by shit skin traffickers and rape gangs
