On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 06:00:31PM +0100, John Fawcett wrote: > my understanding of the GDPR legislation is that it defines what is > considered lawful processing. One of those items that makes the > processing lawful is consent.
Not necessarily. An action that would not be lawful without consent is not automatically made lawful with consent, including under GDPR. > If I send an email to a public mailing list I think it's fair to say > that I am providing consent. Again, not necessarily. First of all, consent cannot necessarily be assumed. Secondly, a person sending an email to a mailing list might very well consent for the mailing list's recipients to receive the content, subject, and reply address of that email - but *not* the IP address from which it was sent. Sam -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
