[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR

[S Moonesamy]

Hi Jordi,
At 01:40 PM 16-04-2018, Jordi Palet Martinez via Community-Discuss wrote:
>And forgot to say that IP addresses are also personal data, so the 
>logs when visiting AfriNIC websites or the registration forms, etc., 
>have the same issue :-) DNS servers logs as well ... and so on ...

   PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
   64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=61 time=1.592 ms

   PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
   64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=37.581 ms

   PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes
   64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=61 time=2.817 ms

Two of those DNS services are local.  It is not easy [1] to prove 
that there is a data protection issue.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. Please see the success rate for data protection cases.