[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] ICANN Meetings/Conversations with Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

[Andrew Sullivan]

> So you have a physical address, a list of people's names, their physical
> addresses, and their entire filing history. Is this "leaked" data as well?

Unless there is some reason (in this case, I guess, UK law) to publish
that to everyone in the universe, then yes, it's leaking data.  Just
because it's doing so by design is irrelevant.

Some people prefer the term "radiates" for this sort of design.
That's ok with me; I don't care what we call it.  The point is that
data is available to everyone in the world without any constraints,
and it is entirely unclear why all those elements are necessary to be
available that way.  Moreover, we have a way not to do that, and have
had for some time.  I do not believe for a New York Minute that there
is an argument to the contrary, and in any case I have yet to see one
produced.

Moreover, I have not seen, either, anything resembling a plausible
argument why some disclosure on the part of the query source as to who
is making the query is an inappropriate thing to require in exchange
for certain classes of data.  I'd be fascinated to see such an
argument, but I haven't even seen one offered yet apart from, "This is
how we do it now."  When I taught elementary reasoning, we called that
"appeal to tradition" and taught it in the fallacies chapter, so I
don't think that can be the argument people are advancing.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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