Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by _o_ on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:39AM (#16858138)

I will just kill the email address. Due to the tracking on internet I am using a customized email address for each site where I register to (for example sha1(news.ycombinator.com-secret)@mydomain.com) while my personal address is never used on any website so my antispam quest is quite simple :) You send spam, you are redirected to /dev/null

As a side effect, I know when my address is sold to anyone and by which site, I am already sharpening my papers, after 25. of May, every website that will give away my address is going to get serious papercut.

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by sjtgraham on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:43AM (#16858757)

How can you prove a data controller gave away your information and that you didn’t falsely do it yourself?

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by mschuster91 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:53PM (#16860655)

The burden of proving the provenance of the data relies on the data controller. Unless the data controller wants to pay a high fine, he has to prove where he got the data, and how/when/where the data owner agreed that the data controller was allowed to use the data.

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by sjtgraham on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:18PM (#16862398)

Have you read the GDPR?

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Re:Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to ... by GCU-Empiricist on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:04AM (#16867928)

Can you please post a blog guide on administering these paper-cuts.

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