balenaEtcher and privacy/GDPR

[roan]

According to balena-io/etcher#2497 there are some concerns about privacy and GDPR compliance. As balenaEtcher is the suggested program for creating the sd card, could this be a problem?

[JamesH65]

Thanks for the heads up, I'm passing it on to our legal team.

[lurch]

balena-io/etcher#2599 (comment) says the Etcher team are looking into it too.

[rradar]

This is well known to the balena team since minimum august 2017 (balena-io/etcher#2497 (comment))

They (balena) don't take any actions since ever - no matter how many heads ups they got (@JamesH65). 🐋

Guess we just need to wait for the Greece Authority (Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA)) to take action and wake up some people here. Last company they fined 5 weeks ago was a 150k€ 🥊...

[JamesH65]

This is not the place to discuss it - we are not balena. Since no actual GDPR lawyers have commented, on any threads I have read, to say it's a definite infringement, for the moment we will assume it isn't. If balena want to take the risk, that is down to them, but we won't be playing internet lawyers here.

[JamesH65]

Not sure what you point is, on a 6 month old closed thread.

But, we have just released our own Imaging Software and changed out documentation to recommend that , so you don't really need to use Etcher if you don't want to.