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Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois
From: Tore Anderson <tore () fud no>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:13:26 +0100
* David Guo via NANOG
Good News! But we still received several spams from Cogent for our RIPE and APNIC ASNs.
If you are an EU/EEA citizen, you may object to their use of your personal information for marketing purposes (or for any purpose at all), as well as request erasure. (Note: these rights do not extend to impersonal role addresses like noc () example com or hostmaster () example com.) According to https://www.cogentco.com/en/cogent-gdpr/data-privacy, this should be done by sending e-mail to dataprivacy () cogentco com. There is no circumstance in which a company can legally refuse an objection to processing of personal information for marketing purposes. Therefore, should they refuse (or claim compliance but continue to spam you), you have standing to file a complaint with your national data protection agency. A DPA is competent to levy fines for violations of the GDPR of up to €20M or 4% of annual global revenue, so there is a certain incentive to respect such objections. (It might be that citizens of California have similar rights under the CCPA, which came into force last week.) Tore
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- FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois John Curran (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois chris (Jan 06)
- RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois David Guo via NANOG (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois David Hubbard (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Töma Gavrichenkov (Jan 07)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Eric Kuhnke (Jan 07)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois David Hubbard (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Christian Seitz (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Tore Anderson (Jan 07)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Owen DeLong (Jan 07)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Martin Hannigan (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Ross Tajvar (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois John Curran (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois TJ Trout (Jan 06)
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- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois John Curran (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Owen DeLong (Jan 07)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Ross Tajvar (Jan 06)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Martijn Schmidt via NANOG (Jan 07)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Mark Tinka (Jan 07)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Martijn Schmidt via NANOG (Jan 07)