[HN Gopher] Pirate Party member: GDPR-compliant Whois will lead ...
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Pirate Party member: GDPR-compliant Whois will lead to 'doxxing and
death lists'
Author : upofadown
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-10-16 22:08 UTC (51 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
| jikbd wrote:
| In some countries something like this has been mandatory for a
| long time.
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| In Germany and its lapdog Austria there's the mandatory
| impressum: fully doxxed whether you want it or not.
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| In Spain if you handle a database with personal information (like
| a forum or a blog where people can leave their email addresses
| along with comments) you also have to put all your data somewhere
| in the page so people can contact you to have themselves removed.
|
| But hey we have cookie banners at least!
| bserge wrote:
| Maybe I'm too tired, but wtf is this article even talking about.
|
| You can lose your domain if your data is not accurate/real.
|
| Registrars have also been offering proxy contact services for a
| long time now. Authorities, of course, can get the real info.
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