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On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 01:22:24PM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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>> NB: I think that there should be public and convenient |
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>> documentation |
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>> citing where the assets containing such information are located, as |
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>> a |
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>> means of public declaration of what jurisdiction applies. |
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> The infra wiki pages of server lists do explicitly specify where the |
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> various servers are physically located. None of them are in New |
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> Mexico. |
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> What they don't visibly track is that that Infra can & does move |
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> services around over time, depending on the availability of sponsor |
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> hardware, requests of sponsors, and appropriate resources for the |
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> growth |
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> of larger services. [Eg HostVirtual recently contacted us to migrate |
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> some services, because they wanted to decommission old hardware] |
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>> I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that the jurisdiction under which |
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>> the |
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>> information is contained and/or serves as the state of incorporation |
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>> (new mexico, IIRC?) will control any "involuntary" disclosures that |
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>> the |
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>> foundation will not have any discretion about. |
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> One of the side bits that was done many years ago, was to put certain |
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> things outside of the US however, to take potential advantage of more |
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> local privacy laws. For example, Forums lives in Vancouver, BC, |
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> Canada, |
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> and is thus subject to BC privacy laws, which are very strong. If the |
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> data is located there, can take precedence over other jurisdictions, |
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> at |
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> least according to some BC lawyers. |
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> If nothing else, it's sufficiently complex privacy law to muddy the |
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> waters over data transfer. |
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And this is exactly why members of the gentoo community should be made |
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aware of any laws that may apply. |
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This is exactly why my opinion is strongly in favor of having the |
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situation, whatever it may actually be, documented so that people who |
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might get burned by having their stuff exposed by legal action will at |
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least have advanced warning. |
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> -- |
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> Robin Hugh Johnson |
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> Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer |
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> E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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