Doesn’t matter. Lemmy instances are technically “entities” so the law applies to them. You don’t have to be a business, just “anything that processes EU citizen’s personal data”.
It doesn’t though lol, they don’t collect PII as part of their business. There is no business. They would have to actually get investigated, not cooperative then sued. None of the enforcements that weren’t criminal ever amounted to anything, all the major fines are criminal cases. you can actually check https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ sort by Private Individual.
In no cases are the lemmy devs responsible for this or “fucked up” per the article. Ruud, the sysadmin of lemmy.world could be sued but would have to be non cooperative and involved in a criminal case.
GDPR applies regardless of any “business”. It applies to any entity processing personal data.
Which is incredibly broad by the way. IP addresses and email addresses are personal data too. Same goes for “account data” in a broad sense. So Lemmy does collect personal data, and has to be compliant with the GDPR.
Of course, for a fine there needs to be an investigation and the entity has to not comply with GDPR requests after a warning. And you’re absolutely right that devs can’t be sued for this, but the sysadmin running the instance can be. But that would only happen after GDPR noncompliance.
Doesn’t matter. Lemmy instances are technically “entities” so the law applies to them. You don’t have to be a business, just “anything that processes EU citizen’s personal data”.
Actually I believe it’s “residents”. You don’t need to be a citizen.
It’s both indeed, citizens as well as residents.
It doesn’t though lol, they don’t collect PII as part of their business. There is no business. They would have to actually get investigated, not cooperative then sued. None of the enforcements that weren’t criminal ever amounted to anything, all the major fines are criminal cases. you can actually check https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ sort by Private Individual.
In no cases are the lemmy devs responsible for this or “fucked up” per the article. Ruud, the sysadmin of lemmy.world could be sued but would have to be non cooperative and involved in a criminal case.
GDPR applies regardless of any “business”. It applies to any entity processing personal data.
Which is incredibly broad by the way. IP addresses and email addresses are personal data too. Same goes for “account data” in a broad sense. So Lemmy does collect personal data, and has to be compliant with the GDPR.
Of course, for a fine there needs to be an investigation and the entity has to not comply with GDPR requests after a warning. And you’re absolutely right that devs can’t be sued for this, but the sysadmin running the instance can be. But that would only happen after GDPR noncompliance.