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You wouldn't in common cases because as an individual you are not required to care.

However if you are an owner of a database containing personal information (where database means collection, not a particular technology), then rules are different. You then are required to collect only what you need for purposes granted by their owners and have to take care of not disseminating it without approval to others.

Google wasn't allowed to collect Street View data until they could conform to our privacy laws which mostly meant not making photographed people easily identifiable. This requirement is in no way specific to Slovenia (e.g. I think Germany has the same one) and Google complied which is why you can use street view in Slovenia now.

I would not describe our computer-related laws crazy. They are lacking as laws everywhere are and certainly sometimes in uniquely our way. However it is often the enforcement (or lack of) that is the problem, not laws themselves.



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