[anti-abuse-wg] Spamming LIR accounts

Töma Gavrichenkov wrote on 07/05/2020 10:03:
> What does GDPR have to say about this?

You mean the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations / PECR.
Spamming is prohibited under article 13.

National transcriptions of this legislation have implemented this as a
civil offence in some EU countries and a criminal offence in others.

Note that this mainly applies to personal accounts, not role accounts.

In any event, spamming using contact information harvested from the RIPE 
database is a violation of the terms of use of the RIPE Database:

> https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/terms

specifically:

> Users may not use the RIPE Database or the data contained therein for
> advertising, direct marketing, marketing research or similar
> purposes.

Nick