[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ]

Hi Noah,

 

I’m sure we all have contacts from lots of people from the community, but we use those contacts for the reason they have been provided, is not lawful to use those for anything else.

 

The point here is that even if I’ve your email because we have contected about operational issues of our networks (for example), I can use your email for selling you “fruits” or “a car” or “convince you about what candidates to the board you should vote”.

 

In fact, according to the GDPR (and in many countries even before the GDPR), if I’ve your email because you’re my customer for shoes, and tomorrow I setup a shop for fish, I can’t use your email for that. If instead of shoes it is clothes, it may depend on the original data that was provided about my business when you registered for the shoes. However, definitively I can’t use your email for sending you a support request for my prefered board candidates.

 

Anyway, there is a simple answer to all that. Can Ahmed, who send the original email, confirm if he provided it to the sender, for elections information or something else ?

 

Can other folks who got that email, confirm if they have provided it?

 

With just a few responses, we will be able to understand if that was part of an allowed communication or there is data protection issue.

 

Regards,

Jordi

@jordipalet

 

 

 

El 4/7/19 0:07, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz> escribió:

 

Hi Jordi,

 

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:51 PM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:

I’m angrier about this as much as I think on it again.

 

I hope you have come down.

 

 

Can all the people that got those emails confirm if they have provided voluntarily their emails or if they have participated in Afrinic lists, or if those emails are part of their Afrinic contacts, in order to understand if this personal data (emails are personal data), have been collected from Afrinic internal databases.

 

I can confirm I did receive such similar emails from various candidates and some of their supporters seeking my vote. I can also confirm that my address book is full of contact email addresses of technical members of various communities. I for instance know most email addresses of technical people in my country and a few other countries in East and Southern Africa and I have exchanged emails with folks in the past and I still reach out to them often regarding various Internet related activities. 

 

Cheers,

Noah

 

 



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