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One thing I find super crazy is that, while making a big fuss about IP addresses and cookies, the EU forces any website owner to publicly share his full name, a
by leobg 5y ago
One thing I find super crazy is that, while making a big fuss about IP addresses and cookies, the EU forces any website owner to publicly share his full name, address and phone number on the site’s imprint.
If you’re not a corporation or a professional who has an office address, you’ll have to supply your own personal data. Visible to anyone on the internet.
- knorker 5y agoOh? I missed this. What regulation is that?
- iso1210 5y agoThere isn't one There's a German law which says all commercial webpages have to say who runs it.
- iggldiggl 5y ago1. The legal definition of what's "commercial" under that law and what's not isn't quite as straightforward as a layman might think. (For one, that law doesn't literally say "commercial" ("gewerbsmäßig"), but rather "geschäftsmäßig" ("business-like"), which doesn't require an intent to make money, but may include anything you plan on regularly doing). 2. Assuming you're referring to the Telemediengesetz, there's a second law (Medienstaatsvertrag) which mandates an imprint for anything that's not strictly for "personal or family purposes". Depending on who you ask, those two terms also require a rather narrow reading, so anything beyond a strictly private family diary (careful not to make references to any outside persons or businesses, though, because those entities will then have a legal interest in being able to identify you in case you malign them!) or family pictures or your private Dropbox replacement (ideally all the above should be password-protected and therefore not accessible by the general public anyway) might again already be in a grey area. 2b. Additionally, blogs can enter another grey area where depending on what and how you're blogging about, they might be classified as a journalistic service offering and therefore require an extended imprint, too.
- iso1210 5y agoSo no EU regulation then
- iso1210 5y agoI believe that's a German law, nothing to do with the EU
- leobg 5y agoTrue. But it’s also most often German courts that make headlines because a webmaster used a Google Font. I’d much rather have Google know my IP address than have some nutcase know where I live.