[db-wg] RIPE 73 DB-WG agenda V1

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:17:52PM +0200, denis wrote:

Dear Denis

> Have you forgotten about the almost million personal data sets that the 
> RIPE NCC locked and then asked the community to decide what to do next? I 
> wrote a detailed argument on why I believe this is a serious legal issue 
> some time ago, which not even the RIPE NCC answered:
> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2016-September/005318.html
>
> Bottom line, the RIPE NCC is both responsible for and liable for publishing 
> in a public database the personal details of almost a million people who 
> they have no relationship with, no knowledge of and no contact with. That 
> breaks data protection laws. They cannot hide behind being the 'data 
> controller' or the arguments made by the RIPE Data Protection Task Force 
> many years ago that this responsibility was delegated to the LIRs. If the 
> RIPE NCC's MNTNER object protects these PERSON objects, the RIPE NCC is 
> responsible and liable for this data.
>
> The objects should be reverted back to unmaintained and the operational 
> data that references them should be locked. That will force members to sort 
> the problem out themselves, after ignoring it for many years.

I have not forget about this topic. It is going to be presented by Tim
under point D in the agenda.

All the best,
Piotr

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