[anti-abuse-wg] Spamming LIR accounts

As Nick points out, the clearest violation, if there is one, would be the terms of service of the RIPE DB. There may be others, that would be somewhat up to your local laws and how you would like to pursue things.

Should anyone believe they have been spammed by someone who they believe has harvested contact details from the DB, then they should contact abuse at ripe.net to report it.

Handily there are rules in place for this, should it ever happen...

Thanks,

Brian


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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://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ripe.net%2Fmanage-ips-and-asns%2Fdb%2Fsupport%2Fdocumentation%2Fterms&data=02%7C01%7Cbrian.nisbet%40heanet.ie%7Cd1651da6e1604bdd622508d7f268c761%7Ccd9e8269dfb648e082538b7baf8d3391%7C0%7C0%7C637244404157367052&sdata=j82XJG9%2FV7PXHxJIq7KxxyVLFolK9P8lXgN3rV%2B5kA0%3D&reserved=0

specifically:

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

Nick