[Consortium] We have to move!

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 11:05:53AM -0500, Ico Bukvic wrote:

> One of the mailing list subscribers invoked their right to erasure as
> specified in EU's Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation.
> This meant that Jeremy and Robin? had to dig through various mentions of
> their name and anonymize them. To me this, if it gets out of hand, could
> have profound ramifications on the content stored in mailing lists and
> other online resources. US, as far as I can tell, has no such provisions.

I doubt very much if article 17 applies here at all. But then I'm
not a legal expert.

It would certainly cover the data in a membership list, but

- The archives are not linked to any particular person or 'account'.

- Whatever is in them was meant to be published, and not provided
  just for internal use by the list maintainer.

- Anyone reading the list can keep a copy of all posts, independent
  of the list providing an archive, and make such copies public.  

- Article 17 makes an explicit exception for archives kept in the
  public interest.


Ciao,


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FA