Preventing public key upload to key-servers

Jacob Bachmeyer jcb62281 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 05:26:31 CET 2022


jonkomer via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> When the keyserer operator operates outside
>> of the EU I don't think that is a legal problem.
>
> If an individual that requests his personal information is
> removed (i.e., the "right to be forgotten") is EU resident,
> GDPR applies regardless of the jurisdiction in which the
> information server is located.

It may *purport* to apply, but if the keyserver is outside of EU 
jurisdiction, the server is outside of EU jurisdiction.

This is a very good thing, or would you prefer to be subject to whatever 
"long arm" nonsense Communist China can cook up?


-- Jacob




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