Re: Scope for self-destructing email?

[[e-mail] (Martin Rex)]

vaibhav singh wrote:
> 
> As some of you may already know, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
> about to be enforced in the EU within months, and calls for strict
> regulations for Right to rectify communications, Right to be forgotten ,
> Pseudonymisation and Data portability.

I believe you have seriously misunderstood the parts of GDPR about
"the right to be forgotten", because it does regularly not apply to IETF
mailing list posting -- only in very exceptional situations -- and
for those exceptional situations, there is a procedure in place where
you can submit a request to delete an indivdual submission from
the public archives (mailing list archives and I-D repository)
if you have a valid reason why this submission should be deleted.

The "Right to be forgotton" primarily applies to

 - terminated contracts -- so that a seller or service provider
   deletes data about you after termination of contract / subscription

 - that stories in the news (media outlets) about you, which you often
   didn't publish yourself (but some reporter about you) and with little
   public interest, will at some point disappear from online public archives
   (and internet search engines).  The information may remain available
   in offline archives (such as microfiche) as in the past.


-Martin