[bearblog carnival] my favorite GDPR article

For Kami's Carnival "Bear Blog Carnival: Your favorite ____ in your niche hobby", I'm writing about what my favorite General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) article is. Initially, this came up in our Matrix server. I wrote: "If you ask me my favorite anything, I blank [...]. Except games. And GDPR articles maybe. Food too" Kami then asked me what my favorite article is, and it is Article 6 (x)! It's the first thing I think of when I think of the GDPR; it decides so much, as it holds all of the legal bases data processing can have in 6(1). They are easy to remember and understand too: consent, fulfillment of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation, vital interests, public interest, and legitimate interest. Short, sweet, relatively easy to read for laymen. The rest of Article 6 is more about specifying parts of this via an opening clause so Member State law can narrow some of this down. I just find it so satisfying to have one article to refer to for different routes of legal…