French operator SNCF has previously asked passengers to self-declare as 'Monsieur' or 'Madame'.

French operator SNCF has previously asked passengers to self-declare as ‘Monsieur’ or ‘Madame’.

The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that requiring rail passengers to declare a gender when buying a ticket is in breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

  • amelore@slrpnk.netEnglish
    59·
    23 hours ago

    Their mistake was not to add the “prefer not to say” option, now they can’t collect any gender stats.

    • OfficerBribe@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      21 minutes ago

      I think it wouldn’t fly either since verdict was that this is GDPR problem - there was no need to collect this info.