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).
Unironically. Excess data collection must be stopped for it threatens privacy and security.
Excess data collection is a natural consequences of profit-seeking, which is something the UE forced on our national train operators, which lead to a dramatic increase in price and a crumbling infrastructure
God damn hypocrites.