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Journalists usually write about public individuals, or where private people do something in the public interest. History is usually written about dead people, who you can find in publicly released census records. Companies have no right to privacy, only the limited concepts of trade secrets, etc.

You may want to distinguish between what is published and what is collected for analysis. The GDPR covers both.

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>Journalists usually write about public individuals

There are plenty of news stories involving people who aren't public individuals.

>History is usually written about dead people

History is written in real time. See wikipedia for example.

> There are plenty of news stories involving people who aren't public individuals.

Typically because there is a public interest in the story and/or because that individual did consent. It is not common to publish investigations of common people's bedrooms without their consent.

I think that is caused more by there not being a demand for news about random bedrooms. If you look more at social media if you are at someone's house and take a selfie, you aren't going to ask your friend if having their room as your background is okay.

> If you look more at social media if you are at someone's house and take a selfie, you aren't going to ask your friend if having their room as your background is okay.

Prepare to get kicked out if you post my private space on the internet without asking.

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