[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Krebs On Security article RE whois and GDRP

['Tapani Tarvainen']

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:17:04AM -0800, consult at cgomes.com (consult at cgomes.com) wrote:

> Trying to protect non-European natural persons dealing with European
> companies seems reasonable to me, but I don't understand how the GDPR could
> protect non-European natural persons dealing with non-European companies.

It can't. EU does not claim jurisdiction in that situation. People
outside EU will benefit from GDPR directly only when dealing with
European companies. My apologies if I was unclear.

Tapani

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnso-rds-pdp-wg [mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf
> Of Tapani Tarvainen
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 1:06 PM
> To: gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org
> Subject: Re: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Krebs On Security article RE whois and GDRP
> 
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:52:51AM -0800, John Horton via gnso-rds-pdp-wg
> (gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org) wrote:
> 
> > But we're seeing the registrar community say: We want to apply this 
> > globally. To all domain name registrations. Doesn't matter if the 
> > registrant is the intended beneficiary of the new law, or in scope, or 
> > not.
> 
> Intended beneficiaries of the GDPR are all the people in the world.
> 
> The recitals make that quite clear.
> 
> In particular EU wants to protect also non-European individuals against
> European companies even if that would mean giving competitive advantage to
> non-European companies, strange though that may seem to some.
> 
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen