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

[allison nixon]

When I search Facebook for "Allison Nixon" and I get back a list of people
with this name, their provided locations, and profile pics, is this also a
leak? no law mandates this behavior

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>
wrote:

> > 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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