[The EU is so wrong, as usual] Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/04/14/whois_icann_gdpr_europe/ In a letter [PDF] sent this week to DNS overseer ICANN, Europe's data protection authorities have effectively killed off the current service, noting that it breaks the law and so will be illegal come 25 May, when GDPR comes into force. The letter also has harsh words for ICANN's proposed interim solution, criticizing its vagueness and noting it needs to include explicit wording about what can be done with registrant data, as well as introduce auditing and compliance functions to make sure the data isn't being abused. ICANN now has a little over a month to come up with a replacement to the decades-old service that covers millions of domain names and lists the personal contact details of domain registrants, including their name, email and telephone number. - - - Nobody NEEDS an Internet domain for non-business purposes. And if you're using a domain name for business purposes, your full identification, address, and other contact information should be openly available just like with public business license information and other public business data. It's the hiding of this data that has permitted spam, phishing operations, and other crooks to flourish, and the registries, registrars, and now the EU -- as usual on the wrong side of every Internet issue these days -- are directly complicit in these crimes by creating a shield behind which these monsters can operate. The EU: Pro-crime! Pro-censorship! They make Russia and China look like amateurs when it comes to 21st century information tyranny. Show me the switch to cut the EU off from the rest of the Internet and I'll pull it. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
