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

> On 6 Mar 2019, at 15:23, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via ripe-list <ripe-list at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> I don't agree. Sometimes courts/DPAs will not take cases in consideration if there is not an explicit reminder.

Maybe Jordi. But that depended on the pre-GDPR circumstances. We're all in a *very* different environment now that GDPR is in force. Thanks to GDPTR there's no need to say "don't misuse personal data" any more or put that on every bloody email and web page. Any misuse of an EU citizen's personal data is a violation now and it doesn't matter if there's a disclaimer or not.

This is all beside the point anyway. I repeat what I said before:

> I think we should concentrate on making sure our personal data are protected from mis-use rather than sticking up yet another warning notice on our front door. IMO we've already got too many of them. And, dubious virtue signalling aside, I'm not convinced they do any good.
> 
> Has anyone got any evidence to show that warnings like the one above have actually reduced the volume of spam or made a marketroid behave properly? Until that evidence emerges, we should stop going down this path - and very probably stop this thread too.


And in the specific of the marketing scum who triggered this thread, I suggest the NCC sends them a cease and desist warning in writing. FWIW I did that ~10 years ago when someone spammed dns-wg-chair at ripe.net. The spam stopped. And I assume the data harvesting that started it.

Next, we randomly insert a use-once bogus entry in the attendee list from time to time. If someone spams that list, we can prove where they got the data from and sue or prosecute them. This is what phone companies do/did with paper-based directories. {Remember them?] If someone violates the (compilation copyright?) IPR, these sorts of nonce entries provide the proof that's needed in court.