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<p>Dear Andrew, Members and the whole Afrinic community,</p>
<p>Andrew has raised a very important issue for Afrinic operations -
Thanks so much Andrew.</p>
<p> The Board would like to inform you that the issue was discussed
within the Board at the Afrinic 27 meeting in Lagos and the
Management was tasked to work on the issue.<br>
</p>
<p>The Board has also been made aware that the Mauritius Data
Protection Act 2017 is already in effect and is aligned with the
EU GDPR regulations. The Board believes that these regulations
are not a barrier to publication of the WHOIS data, and it has
noted the RIPE NCC study that made such a finding. The Board
further believes that the biggest changes required by AFRINIC are
in documenting how personal data is used, and in informing people
at the time data is collected. <br>
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<p>The AFRINIC management will provide further updates on the issues
at AIS 2018 in Senegal.</p>
Further to the above, the Board expects to receive more insights on
GDPR related issues at the joint Boards (AfriNIC and RIPE NCC)
meeting planned in Senegal.<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/04/2018 08:42, Andrew Alston
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi AfriNIC Board,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can this board please *<b>urgently</b>*
inform this community as to what preparations they have made
as regards to compliance with the General Data Protection
Regulations passed by the European Commision and the board
will be in a position to give this community a full and
complete report as to their GDPR compliance status and what
will be changing before the 25<sup>th</sup> of May to ensure
that when the GDPR comes into force AfriNIC is compliant.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Considering that the regulation comes into
force on the 25<sup>th</sup> of May 2018 – and AfriNIC is 100%
holding data of EU Citizens, which makes them subject to the
regulations irrespective of the fact that they are domiciled
in Mauritius – this is an urgent and critical issue. It has
direct impact on the whois database, abuse contact
information, handling of data submitted during application
process and potentially even the proposed review policy, just
to name a few things that I can think of off the top of my
head – and cannot be ignored. I would in fact have liked to
have seen discussions by the board in the minutes that have
been published about the GDPR long before now – considering
the impact – but failing that – the question is now being
asked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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