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

[Dotzero]

Andrew,

For some definition of "we", it isn't clear to me what "we" collectively
want.

Michael Hammer

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 06:46:29PM +0200, theo geurts wrote:
> >
> > I think it is meant that IP addresses will be considered personal
> > information under the GDPR, that concept might be new to folks in this
> WG.
>
> I _know_ that.  But there are two issues here:
>
>     1.  It appears entirely clear, both from previous discussions and
>     from the legal analysis that was just delivered, that collection
>     of certain data (and we're still talking about collection,
>     remember) is permitted if you have legitimate purposes.
>     Therefore, we should be paying attention to those purposes, and be
>     specific about it.
>
>     2.  It is possible that any law, or any interpretation of the law,
>     is being made with a misapprehension of how the Internet actually
>     works.  Quite frankly, it is apparent to me that an alarming
>     number of policymakers have a deeply mistaken model for the way
>     the Internet works, mostly aligned with a picture that looks like
>     the way the phone system used to work.  But we have to make policy
>     for the actual Internet, rather than for some system that does not
>     actually exist.  This is why I sent that note the other day about
>     figuring out what we want and then asking lawyers how that can be
>     made to comport with such legal regimes as we know, rather than
>     doing it the other way.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
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