On 26/02/2019 02:30, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via ripe-list wrote:
The company sending the spam said that.
I cannot read it from the text you quoted. There is no indication on *how* the information was obtained. I am also not sure to what extent the statement you quote is truthful. So I would not jump to conclusions.
As said, at a minimum we should send a clear message by starting a law suit against this company.
If we don't do that already, we should have a message, in the attendee list of all our events (past, present and future) in the line of "This list is for the benefit of the participants and RIPE doesn't authorize to use it for marketing prospects or any other activities. We remind that GDPR requires explicit consent to use this data". Fine with me to do in the future. I doubt it will have any effect nor will it strengthen any legal recourse. Retroactively adding it to all historic meeting records is out of proportion. I do not expect spammers to want ancient data. ;-)
Daniel