14 Dec
2022
14 Dec
'22
9:51 a.m.
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