What are Digital Oceans plans on GDPR compliancy?

Posted on September 11, 2017

Form may 28th onward., all startups in Europe are required to ensure that the services they use are GPDR compliant. Specifically companies need to able to show documentation and contracts with suppliers (such as DO) that show policies regarding privacy and data protection.

There is zero documentation or information available on this from Digital Ocean, besides certification of the data centres.

Digital Ocean can greatly help millions of customers stay customers by for example complying to the CISPE Code Of Conduct, like AWS and other cloud hosting providers do. Are there any plans for this?

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digitalwhale

November 16, 2017

I just came across this thread after reading this GDPR guide. DigitalOcean is listed there as not GDPR complaint.

I’m a European DO customer and for us this is important. Those fines are not a joke. When will there be more info about this?

Any news about this?

I was trying to push the same problem, but their support were very limited in the communication.

This was DO’s GDPR mantra:

"I appreciate you updating us with this. We customize each agreement for the agent and organization signing the agreement. This is why we requested the information to complete the form. I apologize for the confusion on that.

Can you outline the address of the organization or yourself and the signing agent and organization? We will prepare the agreement then provide it here for you. We will appreciate your update with this and if you have further questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to reply with them."

In the end DO suggested me to create a suggestion - here.

I guess DO is not ready for GDPR at all.