perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Antoine Delvaux <>]

This is a message of importance to all perfSONAR public nodes administrators.

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming into effect 
this Friday 25th of May.  You can find more information about it at 
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en  With this message 
we want to inform you of the perfSONAR Privacy Notice and tell you how you 
can correct or remove any personal data you would have in our service 
instances.

perfSONAR collects and stores data in the Lookup Service (LS) for its 
operations and for the benefits of each perfSONAR user.  Most of the data 
stored in the LS is technical, service specific or about network 
infrastructure.

Some contact details are also stored to get in touch with you, the people 
that are running all the perfSONAR nodes around the world.  With this message 
we want to advise you to review the contact details you have configured for 
your perfSONAR node(s) and change any personal data that you have shared with 
us to role or group information instead.   The information kept on the LS is 
discarded and needs to be refreshed every 24h, so you can also stop the 
service if you prefer that your data is not stored on our servers at all (but 
this would be detrimental to all of our community).

Our full privacy notice is available at 
https://www.perfsonar.net/about/privacy-policy/

We will very soon publish a very small package upgrade to mention our privacy 
notice where it is relevant and add a checkbox in the perfSONAR toolkit Web 
Admin GUI to make sure you have it in mind when filling up information sent 
to the LS.

And if you want to cancel your subscription to the perfSONAR mailing lists, 
you can do so at
- https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/sigrequest/perfsonar-user
- https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/sigrequest/perfsonar-announce

The perfSONAR project.