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The use is always specified: usually something like "running existing services and supporting the development of future services".

Oh, that's not good enough? Well now you are back to what I said: it's simply central planning nonsense where a regulator makes up rules on the fly.

I have seen no evidence that CNIL or indeed other bodies like them protects people from anything. Please show me one, completely unambiguous case of someone who was clearly suffering whose suffering was rectified by CNIL forcing some change to a privacy policy somewhere. And I mean really has a problem, not some emotional airy-fairy feeling that they'd prefer things to be different, I mean concrete, quantifiable issues: like monetary loss.

There is no need for popcorn. I think the biggest fine CNIL can usually hand out is like 300,000 EUR or something. Just pay it Microsoft and get on with things.



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