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Aren't you jumping the gun a little bit? While it's a valid question, it's very premature.
by p-o 2y ago
Aren't you jumping the gun a little bit? While it's a valid question, it's very premature.
- Symbiote 2y agoIt's not premature; it's something to consider whenever sharing people's personal data on the internet. The GDPR does not apply "in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity" [1]. However, that does not extend to generally sharing the information on the internet [2] as that's no longer purely personal. [1] https://gdpr-text.com/read/recital-18/ https://gdpr-text.com/read/recital-18/ [2] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/92229/what-does-household-exception-to-the-gdpr-mean https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/92229/what-does-hous...
- dylan604 2y agoHow does the fact that the user opts-in for the service by manually adding the tag to their profile so that information they personally added could be shared get considered by the GDPR?
- d1sxeyes 2y agoNot sure and IANAL but the GDPR text is a bit weird on that. Article 9 has section e) which says that information 'manifestly made public' relating to 'special categories' is excluded. What's weird is there seems to be no such exclusion for personal information which does not relate to special categories. Having this 'opt-in' certainly seems to tick the box for consent. However, if reproducing information from a publicly available bio would fall foul of GDPR requirements, then I think there are bigger fish to fry than a hobby project made by a guy who at least seems to trying to respect people's preferences.
- Symbiote 2y agoAlthough I wrote "it's something to consider", from what I can see the developer has already considered this sufficiently for the scale of the project.