Mauritius is signatory that’s where the safe harbour was put In place years back. All BPOs in mauritius are holding EU citizen / resident data. the Data Protection office will be fast tracking to look like ICO which is renamed GDPR anyways.
Kris > On 11 Apr 2018, at 10:08, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > > > >> On Apr 10, 2018, at 22:42 , Andrew Alston <andrew.als...@liquidtelecom.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi AfriNIC Board, >> >> Can this board please *urgently* 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 25th of >> May to ensure that when the GDPR comes into force AfriNIC is compliant. > > Is Mauritius signatory to some treaty making them subject to GDPR? > >> Considering that the regulation comes into force on the 25th 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. > > It’s not about EU Citizens. It’s about EU Residents. (Common misconception > about GDPR). > > Further, unless your in a silly country that was dumb enough to sign a treaty > extending EU’s legal reach into your sovereignty, such as the stupid congress > of the united States, then you can offer the EU a nice big Italian sign > language gesture regarding their GDPR and continue on with business as usual. > > Owen > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > Community-Discuss@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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