I didn't realize it until reading this post, but certain very popular technologies break GDPR in a deep way.
Bitcoin, for instance, contains a wealth of personal information, which by design are both public, persisted forever, and immutable.
Are blockchain products all going to need a full rewrite or a complicated hard fork?
What about the Wayback Machine? Will they need to have an endpoint that every company will need to call for every “right to be forgotten” request worldwide?
Is Bitcoin identifiable? Or is an association to a Bitcoin transaction in a payment system identifiable? Which would mean the personal info could be removed in the payment system
On the off-chance that you are not asking this in bad faith…
All speculators go through a KYC with their exchange, which identifies them very precisely.
All other users paste it publicly, saying “I own this account! Send me money.” And even those users often have to convert it back to fiat, which requires an exchange, which makes them go through a KYC.
Ah, right, Bitcoin exchanges in USA, and elsewhere, harbour personal identifiable information. Bitcoin doesn't impose it, but it's a practical requirement in some jurisdictions.
Bitcoin, for instance, contains a wealth of personal information, which by design are both public, persisted forever, and immutable.
Are blockchain products all going to need a full rewrite or a complicated hard fork?
What about the Wayback Machine? Will they need to have an endpoint that every company will need to call for every “right to be forgotten” request worldwide?