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

[John Bambenek]

All the more reason that WHOIS privacy should be a free option on every
domain without restriction or question.  I have a hard time justifying
the position that exercising one's rights should be someone else's
profit center.


On 4/27/2017 3:51 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 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
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