you know, i've learned to totally hate the gdpr and / or lawyers and / or laws and / or businesses within a year or so, every local and international company in the world who realized where i live, have written to me and told they want to slash all of my data off, resulting in loss of service when asked why, they cited the law, and when i asked if i can have limits extended as i'm here and responding and still want to be their client, they said no, as laws don't allow that. i have to be special "client client" and do magical actions to keep my status so what to do, hide my location? funnily privacy would save me here so, there's a regulation passed behind my back, by entity i didn't vote in favor for, that protects me even if don't want to we went from literal wild west to kindergarten when my fork is replaced by spoon because god forbid if i end up stabbing my tongue with it and fork company is afraid of being sued. by random bystander who saw this is this the world we really want to live in? besides ripe atlas could still be used to pinpoint things, whole idea of it is monitoring after all. within internet, which isn't really a computer network, was always a people network so maybe atlas should be closed althogether? people previously joked that i'm doxxing myself by telling them i run a probe because it's a single probe in my town and therefore it can't be anyone's but mine this was long before gdpr and in fact if whole gdpr would have been shrugged off as a pipe dream. like with chatcontrol and other ideas. last one even negates the gdpr the hell is this, previously anyone had rights to me data except me, now even i don't have right to it. but, funnily, "authorities" (about to) have that now there have been so many things happening in last 6 years that if i told them back then i have been asked how high fever i currently have. and yet now it's all ok and you can't even pinch yourself to wake up from this nightmare On October 10, 2025 11:13:16 AM GMT+03:00, Karolina Bochenek <kbochenek@ripe.net> wrote:
Dear Sulev-Madis, all, We amended the terms and conditions in line with applicable legal GDPR requirements and intellectual property law. Under GDPR, personal data cannot be processed without a legal basis, which in the case of RIPE Atlas, would be the individual’s consent. Also, a trade name may not be used without permission from its legitimate owner. To clarify, if consent or permission is granted, RIPE Atlas probe hosts may use personal data or trade names. Regions and cities that do not reveal the identification of individuals are also not personal data and can be used.
Best regards, Karolina Bochenek RIPE NCC