Whois vs GDPR, latest news

[don at bowenvale.co.nz (Don Gould)]

What is GDPR?

My current guess is "Just another thing to learn since whois is now broken because to many of us just abused a once useful tool"



On 23 May 2018 1:50:17 PM NZST, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>>What about the likely truth that if anyone from Europe mails the list,
>then
>>every mail server operator with subscribers to the list must follow
>the
>>GDPR Article 14 notification requirements, as the few exceptions
>appear to
>>not apply (unless youâ??re just running an archive).
>
>Some of us whose businesses and equipment are entirely in North
>America will take our chances.  This is NANOG, not EUNOG, you know.
>
>Also, one thing that has become painfully clear is that the number of
>people who imagine that they understand the GDPR exceeds the number
>who actually understand it by several orders of magnitude.
>
>The "you have to delete all my messages from the archive if I
>unsubscribe" nonsense is a good indicator.
>
>R's,
>John

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