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<p>Thanks Tapani,</p>
I will extract from your longer message. <br>
I deliberately kept my brief and less technical.<br>
I think we are in agreement here and I support your position.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font color="#660000">On 2/7/2018 1:07
AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:<br>
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The key distinction, as I understand it, is that "lawful" would
be<br>
</font><font color="#660000">defined by the negative,
everything that some law does not prohibit,
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<font color="#660000">where as "legal basis" is defined by the
positive, only things whose
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justification can be explicitly derived from law. <br>
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<......><br>
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So I would prefer "legal basis" specifically in this sense: that
any processing<br>
would have to be explicitly based on one of the
criteria, or bases, as listed <br>
in GDPR Article 6, or similar
explicit justification in other data protection legislation.
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