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Count Dracula gulped down one last mouthful and laid the body carefully on the bench. Several drops of blood rolled down his fangs and left an untidy smear on his cape. Dracula winced. He had one more item on his to-do list this year — a visit to an official institution. So he would rather not have any stains to compromise him. At least the fabric was black.

Dracula took off his cape and flung it over his arm. He pulled a scroll from his sleeve and broke into a brisk walk towards a building with a sign that read “EU Commission for Imaginary Creatures.”

A man behind a desk tore his gaze from the papers and looked up at Dracula.

“GDPR, you say?” He struck a mocking tone: “‘Santa Claus collects the personal data of innocent children for unknown purposes, stores such data, puts kids through behavior profiling, and worse … ‘ You think you’re being original?” he added in his normal voice.
“But … the data … ” the count mumbled.

“Come on, we’ve been getting this crap about GDPR and Santa since the day they announced it. Everyone and his mother has already whined about it.” The EU Commissioner pulled open a desk drawer containing a sizable pile of papers and flicked Dracula’s complaint on top of it.

He consulted his laptop briefly, pulled it shut, and picked it up.

“He collects data. Let me show you something. Purely out of respect for your ancient lineage.”

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