The GDPR considers, inter alia, the full name of a person (=legal fiction that 
includes human beings as well as legal constructs) is "sensitive data".

The GDPR considers, inter alia, transferring website contents as "processing".

The GDPR mandates, inter alia, that "sensitive data" be "processed" in a way 
that "prevents unauthorized access".

So if your Website contains the name of a person, the transfer has to be 
encrypted. Clear enough?


The GDPR also mandates that the express permission and the exhaustive list of 
purposes be documented. Even if you are just collecting business cards of your 
contacts in a physically ordered (aka indexed) fashion (throwing them in a box 
and shaking the contents is exempt, because you have to "full table scan" to 
retrieve one).

You need to write down the types of sensitive data you have.
You need to write down how you intend to safeguard that data.
You need to write down the "applications" you have (e.g. newsletter, 
accounting, sales, ...)

You need to provide documentation of compliance for inspection.
You need to provide, in detail, on request by a person, the sensistive data 
kept about that person.
You need to correct and/or delete, on request, the sensistive data kept about a 
person.

Take the SQLite Fossil repository as an example. It includes who checked in 
what and when. If any of the contributors are located within the EU, this data 
fall under GDPR jurisdiction...

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] Im 
Auftrag von Simon Slavin
Gesendet: Freitag, 08. Juni 2018 08:37
An: SQLite mailing list <sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org>
Betreff: Re: [sqlite] [EXTERNAL] Re: sqlite.org website is now HTTPS-only

On 8 Jun 2018, at 6:55am, Hick Gunter <h...@scigames.at> wrote:

>> Why can't we have both? I mean the software is in the public domain there is 
>> nothing to hide so what's the point of encrypting the site?
>
> I believe it is because of the EU GDPR, which is designed to placea 
> disproportionate burden on small businesses that cannot afford a full time 
> compliancy department

What the heck ?  These things are both wrong, and have nothing to do with 
one-another.

First, the use of HTTPS does not mean that the site is encrypted.  The site is 
the same as it always has been, and is stored on the server unencrypted.

HTTPS means that the reply the server sends to your browser's enquiry is 
encrypted and signed.  The encryption means that nobody can spy on the 
communication (including employees of your ISP and people staking out your WiFi 
basestation) and the signature means that you can be certain that the web page 
you received really came from the server you contacted and not some other 
server (e.g. one hosting adware or malware or a competitor's site).

Second, the GDPR is far more of a pain to big business, which wants to monetise 
every piece of information it can tease out about every visitor -- and can 
afford the huge server farm and processing costs -- than it is to the little 
business with a contact page and a "sales@" email address.  General Motors 
would love to collect details about the times of day you're online, how often 
you check for price reductions, and which other car company's sites you've 
visited.  Bob's Autos doesn't know anything about you except what you put in 
your message to them.  Bob thinks asking strangers intimate questions is creepy.

The GDPR is, at heart, very simple.  It says that if a non-employee wants you 
to know something about them, they will tell you what that thing is and how you 
may use the information.  And that has nothing to do with HTTPS.

Simon.
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