I’m not so sure about the GDPR status for the Fediverse, I don’t think there’s the law is prepared for “Jerry runs this for people, just for fun”. It’s very much “official organisation” or “money grabbing business” oriented. Someone should fund an actual lawyer to look into this and lay down the real requirements.
The question is, though: what if you’re delivering services to other users? A one-person server on the Fediverse can be GDPR free, but surely lemmy.world can ignore privacy laws like that.
Article 3 GDPR is straightforward, gdpr will apply.
The real question is how any kind of authority could enforce it ?
Almost no chance that any law enforcement/regulator will bother a single-user instance purely on the ground of gdpr…
I’m working in the gdpr compiance field ;) Using a personnal device to monitor public space doesn’t fall under the household exception, this solution even pre-dates the GDPR (https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-12/cp140175en.pdf).
(the case-law is about camera fixed on a private house, but the logic easily translates in a private server grabbing public data).
Just as you did ^^
The question is, though: what if you’re delivering services to other users? A one-person server on the Fediverse can be GDPR free, but surely lemmy.world can ignore privacy laws like that.
Article 3 GDPR is straightforward, gdpr will apply.
The real question is how any kind of authority could enforce it ? Almost no chance that any law enforcement/regulator will bother a single-user instance purely on the ground of gdpr…