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If federated nodes have to mutually verify each others' compliance, then every email server in the EU is breaking the law. Presumably the reason email servers
by dane-pgp 6y ago
If federated nodes have to mutually verify each others' compliance, then every email server in the EU is breaking the law.
Presumably the reason email servers can operate legally is that the sender of each email is deemed to be the data controller or is otherwise giving explicit consent to their private data being sent to each recipient's mail provider.
Social networking is roughly equivalent to the sending of emails BCCed to everyone in your address book. In the case of something like Twitter-style microblogging, the GDPR is even less relevant since the user is deliberately trying to make information publicly available.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI think the sender of each email is definitely giving explicit consent. When I type out "To: foo@example.com", I'm directing my email provider to send my email to the example.com server. That's fundamentally different than the Facebook model, where some information is public and anyone at all can request it, even if they're not in my address book. I agree that you could probably make Facebook with no public pages work, or something like Twitter where there's minimal public information in the first place.