Subj : GPDR
To   : Bjarte Boe
From : Rune Johansen
Date : Thu Aug 02 2018 10:11 am


>>> Am I wrong that GPDR also apply to BBSes?
>> If run by a private person or in a private household with no commercial or
>> professional purpose, yes.
> OK. But the end user need to know that this BBS is for personal or commercial
> interest. If nothing specified, it may be defined as commercial purpose, or
> defined as personal purpose. Kim provide 2 different licenses for BBBS. One
> thing one can do with that is inform the end user at prelog, an another thing
> is telling user the license type of BBBS (personal or commercial).

The license of the software in use is not relevant. I can use a highly
commercial licensed product for my personal household, if I decide to do so. If
 the BBS is run by an organisation/company, GDPR is applicable. Then that
company/organisation will have to document the handling of PII. If they deem
that the product they use is not capable of satisfying their requirements, then
 they could decide to drop it, or request modifications to it, to be able to
comply with their requirements. 

The EU GDPR reguslation is just that, a regulation. A piece of software cannot
be "GDPR compliant". It is what PII data you collect, why and how you process
it, that is the focus in GDPR.

Rune

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