What is DNS4EU? DNS4EU is an initiative by the European Commission that aims to offer an alternative to the public DNS resolvers currently dominating the market. Supported by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the European Union’s DNS4EU secure-infrastructure project provides a protective, privacy-compliant, and resilient DNS service to strengthen the EU’s digital sovereignty and enhance digital security for European Union citizens, governments, and institutions.
The program provides robust DNS security for public institutions and their employees, ministries, local governments or municipalities, healthcare, education, and other critical services such as telecommunications providers. By working with the latter, for example, it ensures DNS resolution service for all of a telco’s customers, with minimum manual overhead for their teams.
Additionally, the DNS4EU solutions aid organizations in complying with regulatory requirements (such as GDPR) to keep data within European borders.
As these organizations often face challenges to independently developing and maintaining high-level cybersecurity measures (such as election cycles or funding), the DNS4EU project solves these challenges by providing a Europe-based, centralized, scalable solution to ensure the highest standards of security and privacy, compliant with EU regulations.
For now.
The whole stated point of this action is to make sure there is a dns provider who is required to be compliant with eu law.
Then entities who have a requirement to be compliant with some recordkeeping or framework of eu law (surprise, it’s all of them!) must use it.
Oh look here, because you ended up using eurodns for gdpr compliance you’re also required to turn over all records upon a lawful inquiry!
It just so happens that dns requests meet the minimum requirements for further search and surveillance, how lucky for me! Who could have ever expected this?
It’s easy to dismiss what I’m saying because it’s not happening at this very moment, but give it a few years and we’ll see liberals bemoaning the suffering of freedom loving peoples languishing under the great Eurovision firewall.
The instant any such report were to be made public anybody who cares about privacy would switch to another DNS.
I’m not saying it’s not possible, or won’t happen, but rather the barrier to switch is so low I have a hard time anybody would accept that “compromise”.