Re: [Sks-devel] The pool is shrinking

[Tobias Mueller]

Hi,

On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 11:00 -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> > They are!
> 
> No, they're not.
I think your assessment is wrong.

> 
> There are (or at least were) a large number of US-based keyserver
> operators who were immune to the GDPR.

I fail to see how this is in accordance with the GDPR.
Section 3.2 states¹:

> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data
> subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not
> established in the Union, where the processing activities are related
> to:
> 
>     the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a
> payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the
> Union

This is exactly the case for OpenPGP Keyservers.

Cheers,
  Tobi

1: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/