[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] international law enforcement association resolution regarding domain registration data

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 27/4/17 5:23 am, John Horton wrote:
> After all, as a US citizen, why should I -- or a Chinese citizen, or a
> Brazilian citizen -- have the right to avail myself of the privacy
> protections afforded by the German government to German citizens?
> Those aren't meant for me. 
>
> And, after all, why should privacy protections that apply to a
> minority of the world's population force a global change everywhere?

Because privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and not just an artifact of EU law.  Most
developed countries other than the United States have stronger data
protection laws than it does.  In fact we are currently suing the United
States government, as are others, arguing that it is in breach of the
U.S. Constitution, never mind the UDHR, for not upholding its citizens'
privacy rights strongly enough.  The accident of history that resulted
in a publicly available WHOIS database doesn't establish any kind of
legal legitimacy for that aberrant practice.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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