Whois vs GDPR, latest news

[niels=nanog at bakker.net (niels=nanog at bakker.net)]

* owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong) [Sun 27 May 2018, 21:42 CEST]:
>The way GDPR is written, if you want to collect (and store) so much 
>as the IP address of the potential customer who visited your 
>website, you need their informed consent and you canâ??t require that 
>they consent as a condition of providing service.

You have this the wrong way around.  You'll need permission to store 
their IP address in logs that you keep and to inform third parties 
about their visits to your site.  And that is because that 
information belongs to the visitor, not to you.


>Basically, the regulation is so poorly written that it is utterly 
>nonsensical and I wonder how business in Europe intend to function 
>when they canâ??t make collecting someoneâ??s address a condition of 
>allowing them to order something online.

Basically, this example is so bad that it's not even wrong.


	-- Niels.