[ripe-list] possible abuse case with our emails / spam from euromoney/capacitymedia

Thanks Bengt,

Yes, the spam was NOT thru the list, sorry if I confused someone on that aspect.

I got the first email on 15th February and the 2nd one on 21st.

The point is that it looks to me very suspicious that they tell me that the data is provided by RIPE (initially) and then by LACNIC.

Now your confirmation makes it clear that somehow, they are "capturing" emails from the RIRs communities ...

Or maybe they look for the attendance list, which is public, and they do a search for the emails with google, and they lie about "how" they have obtained the data.

In any case, even if our emails are "searchable" in Internet, GDPR requires explicit consent to 1) register it in a database, 2) send spam.

But further to that, informing that the RIRs itself provided the data, should be legally prosecuted.

I'm starting to wonder if it makes sense that the RIRs (IETF, ICANN, etc.), keeps publishing the list of attendees. There is any reason for that from the RIPE community or the RIPE NCC perspective? (please keep reading before responding)

I agree that this is very useful for the event participants itself, but it could be made available only for the participants, once they have checked-in (so they are on-site) and once they log-in only. This way we avoid people registering and actually not coming just to get the data.

This way also, if a participant is the one that is capturing the data, in addition to the consequences with the DPA, if identified, he/she can be banned for attending further RIR meetings.

Regards,
Jordi
 
 

-----Mensaje original-----
De: ripe-list <ripe-list-bounces at ripe.net> en nombre de Bengt Gördén <bengan at resilans.se>
Organización: Resilans AB
Fecha: sábado, 23 de febrero de 2019, 19:38
Para: <ripe-list at ripe.net>
Asunto: Re: [ripe-list] possible abuse case with our emails / spam from euromoney/capacitymedia

    On 2019-02-23 07:32, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via ripe-list wrote:
    > I'm curious if nobody else got this spam in the list.
    
    Not on/in the list but I (we. all three that normally attend RIPE 
    meetings from our company) got one at 2019-01-16 12:36. It was about a 
    Subsea EMEA event in Marseilles.
    
    Cheers,
    
    
    -- 
    
    Bengt Gördén
    Resilans AB
    
    
    



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