Whois vs GDPR, latest news

Thu May 17 18:06:27 UTC 2018

What about my right to not have this crap on NANOG?

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Zbyněk Pospíchal <zbynek at dialtelecom.cz>
wrote:

> Dne 17/05/2018 v 18:14 Sander Steffann napsal(a):
> > Hi,
> >
> > But this regulation increases essential liberty for individuals, so I
> don't understand your argument...
>
> No, it don't. It has two aspects:
>
> 1. It brings new positive defined rights. But as with any other positive
> defined rights, it brings an obligation for anyone other to provide such
> rights, it requires enforcement, inspections/whatever which anyone in
> Europe must pay from taxes and it requires implementation of a lot of
> rules, possible changing of existing internal systems etc. etc. in
> companies which will be paid from their revenue, so again from consumer
> money.
>
> 2. It would be the true in an ideal situation. In the real world, there
> is no ideal situation. Accept the fact that if you would like to keep
> any data private, you must not tell them to anyone. You. You are the one
> who can decide about your data and who can really protect your data, no
> one else, no government, no GDPR. There is a lot of anonymization
> techniques, strong encryption and other things helping to cover who
> used/published/steal your private data when it is done by experienced
> professionals. It could help a little bit to keep private data protected
> againest beginner and intermediate data thieves and perhaps againest
> some kinds of stupid mistakes, maybe. Nothing more. Is it enough when we
> mention all the costs, including hidden? I don't think so.
>
>
> BTW, nobody told me he is going to propose such regulation before the
> last EP elections, no party I have been able to vote has anything like
> this nor oposing anything like this in their program.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Zbynek
>

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