[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR

Mon Apr 16 19:15:22 UTC 2018

Hi Arsene,

The GDPR applies for data protection for all EU citizens.

If, for example an EU citizen is the  contact person for a range of IP
addresses provided by Afrinic, then Afrinic needs to ensure this data (
contact details of EU person) meet GDPR obligations, namely, that is has
taken measures to safeguard access to the data and that the data is kept
encrypted.

If it can prove those 2 processes, then it cannot be fined.

This is my understanding of the GDPR changes.

Best regards,
Zeimm.

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> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:39:35 +0200
> From: Ars?ne Tungali <arsenebaguma at gmail.com>
> To: wafa DAHMANI <wafa at ati.tn>
> Cc: S Moonesamy <sm+afrinic at elandsys.com>, General Discussions of
> 	AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR
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> Hi,
>
> My apologies if i am too alarmant on this or if i am misunderstanding this
> issue.
>
> Please consider my message on this as a request from a community member to
> be assured that we are okay and have nothing to worry about.
>>From your message, Wafa, i hope i can be at peace with regards to Afrinic
> and the GDPR because it is that simple from your perspective.
>
> Regards,
> Arsene
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> 2018-04-15 9:37 GMT+02:00 wafa DAHMANI <wafa at ati.tn>:
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> I think there are some misunderstandings of the issue
>> By the way under which laws there will be fines imposed on AFRINIC after
>> the 25th ???? does AFRINIC have subsidiary company in EU area ??
>> I think things are more simplier for AFRINIC
>> AFRINIC has just to declare that as company is fully respecting  data
>> privacy and should appoint a senior responsible for assuring that all
>> mecanisms implemebted treating personal
>> data comply with data privacy issues for example AFRINIC should
>> ISO27001
>> certified and had a Security Officer (which is mandatory to be ISO27001
>> certified).
>>
>>
>> Best
>> Wafa
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> *De: *"Ars?ne Tungali" <arsenebaguma at gmail.com>
>> *?: *"Mike Silber" <silber.mike at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *"S Moonesamy" <sm+afrinic at elandsys.com>,
>> community-discuss at afrinic.net
>> *Envoy?: *Samedi 14 Avril 2018 11:18:22
>> *Objet: *Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR
>>
>>
>> On Apr 14, 2018, at 7:45 AM, Mike Silber <silber.mike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> My expectation is that the org confirms that is has performed a thorough
>> evaluation and believe any risks have been mitigated.
>>
>> Exactly!
>>
>> If fines are to be imposed on AFRINIC (past May 25th) simply because
>> there
>> was less care taken upfront in dealing with this issue, then it will be
>> a
>> total mess.
>>
>> AFRINIC members need to look closely at this since they might be the
>> ones
>> paying!
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 at 00:18, S Moonesamy <sm+afrinic at elandsys.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Arsene,
>>> At 07:48 AM 13-04-2018, Arsene Tungali wrote:
>>> >Reading this thread, I am still awaiting an official statement from
>>> >the Board telling us that AFRINIC is safe and at this stage is in
>>> >compliance with GDPR when it gets into enforcement next month. Or
>>> >maybe did i miss that one?
>>>
>>> There was a message at
>>> https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/
>>> 2018-April/002093.html
>>>
>>> >I am not a EU citizen nor do I live in any EU country but i do care
>>> >very much about privacy issues in terms of the way WHOIS handles
>>> personal data.
>>>
>>> I suggest sending an email to contact at afrinic.net if you have
>>> questions about the above as I would not know how that works for you
>>> given that we do not reside in the same country.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> S. Moonesamy
>>>
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