On 16.11.24 12:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 10:39 AM Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The latter is not a theoretical issue, as one maintainer mentioned that >> his employer received a EU GDPR (general data protection regulation) >> complaint after exposing a email address used in bugzilla through a tag >> in a patch description. > > And once it's upstream there is not much we can do about that anymore, > right? Well, right. :-D I thought that was obvious, so I did not mentioned it in the patch description. I considered mentioning it in the added text, but in the end decided against it, as once an email address is exposed in a patch posting it's kind of too late anyway, as it then ended up in external archives we have no control over. Ciao, Thorsten
