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    That old horse again?<br>
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        <div>Here are some hard facts about the volume of abuse going
          on:</div>
        <div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/">https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/</a></div>
        <div>Right now, 93.3 percent of all domains registered under the
          .science TLD are malicious!</div>
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    Those statistics are only their perceived truth just like the
    audience at Trumps inauguration was the largest ever! <br>
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    Their statistics are deeply flawed as they only look at a small part
    of domain names and disregard major pieces of the puzzle:<br>
    According to nTLD stats, .science has 232,611 <span
      class="percentbar p0"></span>domains, yet the Spamhaus reports
    bases their badness rating on an arbitrary number of domains "seen".
    They even state that if a domain is not in the focus of their
    anti-abuse systems, it will not be counted as seen. By ignoring the
    majority of domains in a TLD one can dream up any percentage one
    likes, apparently. <br>
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    Look at the numbers for .top: Apparently <span class="body">400,469 
      domains are used maliciously. </span><span class="body">400,469!
      That is a lot of abuse that I somehow have not heard about from
      any other source, never seen in my spam filters, etc. </span><br>
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    But I will not dispute that there may be a large number of domains
    in that TLD may be used for abuse. Yet the report does not go into
    further detail? Could a contributing factor of "badness" be a low
    price, attracting the wrong kind of customer? How is this badness
    distributed amongst registrars? They also do not detail how they
    decided a domain was malicious in the first place? Yet on the other
    hand they accuse registries and registrars of knowingly aiding and
    abetting criminals. Without providing proof. Or even complaining to
    ICANN about them, apparently. I would assume that when you make such
    bold statements as Spamhaus does, they have the evidence to back
    them up...<br>
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    I trust these statistics by spamhaus less than anything coming out
    of the mouth of the orange menace. And that is saying something. <br>
    <br>
    Best,<br>
    Volker<br>
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        <div>&gt;&gt;<span style="font-size:12.8px">the question should
            be: Do you have a legally enforceable right to access that
            data and do with it whatever you please.</span></div>
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        <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">At the moment, the answer to
            that is yes. And network owners also have a right to decide
            who they want to interact with. WHOIS is used as part of
            that determination. Not only is registrant data correlated
            with past malicious registrants, but the age of the domain
            is also determined through WHOIS. Without this granularity,
            network owners will absolutely err on the side of blocking
            too much over too little. We already see this with
            residential ISPs blocking entire TCP and UDP ports for their
            customer base, because the alternative is a level of abuse
            that takes the entire network down. Where is the "free and
            open Internet" when the Internet doesn't work anymore? Those
            are the battles that are being fought right now, and
            pretending this isn't a problem is a "wall" on yalls part,
            not mine.</span></div>
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        <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Here is a list of all the
            ports that Comcast blocks for its users. This has nothing to
            do with freedom of speech and everything to do with the fact
            that Comcast's network will die if they don't do this. As a
            consequence I can't send outbound TCP/25 SMTP anymore:</span></div>
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              href="https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/list-of-blocked-ports/">https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/list-of-blocked-ports/</a></span><br>
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        <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">And over-blocking is going
            to be a worse problem when granularity is taken away from
            network defenders. When Spamhaus decides an entire country's
            TLD has too much abuse, most network operators will agree,
            and legitimate sites (like that country's government,
            companies, and media outlets) are an acceptable loss. You're
            going to see more of this, and that country's government has
            little recourse aside from cleaning up their entire TLD so
            network operators can be convinced to remove the blocks. But
            since abuse-laden TLDs are usually that way due to lack of
            budget, it's more likely that the entire country will simply
            suffer harms instead.</span></div>
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        <div>I am really surprised at how little credence is being given
          to these problems.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:41 AM, theo
          geurts <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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              Hi John, <br>
              <br>
              I agree we do not want to create a centralized
              registration and surveillance scheme. <br>
              <br>
              Such a system would be subject to many regulations and
              fines from Data Regulators. If we do not execute privacy
              properly we are creating a system that will cost millions
              of dollars in fines alone. Tho that would actually answer
              the question are the costs of RDS viable. The answer would
              be no. <br>
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              Theo <br>
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                    14-2-2017 14:59, John Horton wrote:<br>
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                        style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Nathalie
                        and others,</div>
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                        style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I
                        wanted to take a moment and explain why I'm
                        strongly opposed to requiring email or other
                        registration in order to view thin or thick
                        details. For the reasons outlined below, I think
                        it's antithetical to the open and decentralized
                        nature of the internet, and constitutes a form
                        of internet surveillance. </div>
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                        style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">First,
                        putting aside repressive regimes, private
                        networks and edge cases, one of the hallmark
                        principles of the internet is that it's open;
                        you don't have to register or justify your need
                        to access information on the internet. And, it's
                        decentralized. Historically, its open nature has
                        included not only being able to see a website,
                        but also the registration details for the
                        website's domain name. And, whatever governments
                        may do (which isn't the question here), there's
                        no centralized internet surveillance or
                        registration authority for internet users
                        generally. </div>
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                        style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">If
                        we impose a scheme where there is a central
                        organization with the authority to a) require
                        registration and b) centrally control access,
                        and c) (as has been proposed) require the user
                        to provide a reason for their access, that
                        organization then also has the ability to d)
                        make judgment calls about what reasons are valid
                        and which are not and e) maintain data on who
                        accessed what RDS data, for what reason, for how
                        long and why. Note also that at least one
                        version of the EWG report said that f) the
                        organization would be empowered to levy punitive
                        measures against internet users who accessed
                        more data than the RDS deems appropriate.</div>
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                        style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">So:
                        you have a system that surveils internet users
                        who access some information and maintains data
                        on their use of that data. Let's think about the
                        following scenarios from the point of view of
                        openness, decentralization and civil liberties.</div>
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                            <li>A journalist (or blogger) is writing an
                              investigative article and wants to find
                              out who is behind a domain name. If we
                              require registration and disclosure of the
                              reason, that in essence creates a
                              situation where the RDS de facto is
                              monitoring that journalist and determining
                              if their basis for conducting the
                              investigation is worthy. It also allows
                              the RDS the ability to monitor the
                              journalist's use of the domain name
                              registration data. This potentially chills
                              free speech. </li>
                            <li>Consider a political activist who wishes
                              to expose corruption by an elected
                              politician and wants to access RDS
                              information to show, for example,
                              conflicts of interests in the politician's
                              business operations. Once the political
                              activist has to disclose who they are, let
                              alone why they are accessing the
                              information, that not only chills
                              legitimate political activism but also
                              potentially opens up a route for
                              government abuse (e.g., if a government
                              agency were able to subpoena the list of
                              who accessed RDS information for which
                              domain names and why). </li>
                            <li>Academic researchers periodically review
                              Whois/RDS data; requiring them to register
                              before reviewing data and disclose why
                              they are doing the research potentially
                              empowers the RDS to monitor academic
                              research and determine its worthiness. </li>
                            <li>Imagine that a cybercrime network is
                              under investigation (as they are wont to
                              be); requiring law enforcement to register
                              -- particularly if there is a log of which
                              domain names they reviewed RDS for -- can
                              potentially compromise the investigation
                              if that information is disclosed. Would
                              registrants have the right to be informed
                              every time that someone registered to
                              review their RDS details? </li>
                          </ul>
                          <div>For one central entity to possess that
                            much power over internet users is something
                            that I think we should avoid, and it's
                            antithetical to the principles of openness
                            and decentralization. There are other
                            well-known solutions to spam and
                            inappropriate contacts; forcing all other
                            legitimate activities to grind to a
                            screeching halt -- particular under the
                            umbrella of a surveillance scheme -- is a
                            cure worse than the disease.  </div>
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                          <div>I recognize and agree that we should try
                            to find constructive solutions to this that
                            require some compromise, and I'm grateful
                            not only for the expertise that Stephanie
                            and others have brought to this group, but
                            also that Benny and others have pointed out
                            some of the problems with Whois details
                            being inappropriately used (e.g., for spam).
                            However, I wanted to outline my strong
                            concerns about creating a centralized
                            registration and surveillance scheme over
                            one subset of internet users as part of the
                            solutions. </div>
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                        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at
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                                  </span></div>
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id="m_-7998131626756526054m_-9163358764285633796m_3299425158225197531yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487072479779_39184"
                                  dir="ltr"><span
id="m_-7998131626756526054m_-9163358764285633796m_3299425158225197531yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487072479779_39362">Would
                                    you be able to carry out your
                                    investigations normally if access to
                                    WHOIS thick were restricted only by
                                    the need to enter an email? </span></div>
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id="m_-7998131626756526054m_-9163358764285633796m_3299425158225197531yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487072479779_39184"
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                                  dir="ltr">With regards to privacy by
                                  design, instead of pushing for the
                                  implementation of this concept inside
                                  the realm of WHOIS where it is
                                  foreign, since it is an engineering
                                  concept, why not advocate for its
                                  implementation at the design level of
                                  the Internet, where it belongs? </div>
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                                        <div dir="ltr"><font
                                            face="Arial" size="2"> On
                                            Tuesday, February 14, 2017
                                            12:38 AM, allison nixon &lt;<a
                                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                                              href="mailto:elsakoo@gmail.com"
                                              target="_blank">elsakoo@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                                            wrote:<br>
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                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                      </span>
                                      <div
class="m_-7998131626756526054m_-9163358764285633796m_3299425158225197531y_msg_container">
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id="m_-7998131626756526054m_-9163358764285633796m_3299425158225197531yiv9108844549">
                                          <div><span>
                                              <div dir="ltr">This car
                                                metaphor isn't complete
                                                without also stating
                                                that some car owners
                                                purchase them for the
                                                sole purpose of running
                                                over people! 
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                                                  <div><br clear="none">
                                                  </div>
                                                  <div>Some car owners
                                                    purchase fleets of
                                                    cars to run over as
                                                    many people as
                                                    possible. Even
                                                    though they re-use
                                                    their name on every
                                                    single vehicle
                                                    registration, the
                                                    subpeona takes so
                                                    long that the city
                                                    can no longer
                                                    automatically block
                                                    the cars as they
                                                    enter, and need to
                                                    wait for them to run
                                                    over a few people
                                                    before they can do
                                                    anything about it.</div>
                                                </div>
                                                <div><br clear="none">
                                                  This metaphor has
                                                  obviously been
                                                  tortured past the
                                                  point of absurdity,
                                                  I'll leave it alone
                                                  now.</div>
                                                <div><br clear="none">
                                                </div>
                                                <div>I've mostly been
                                                  lurking for the whole
                                                  duration of this
                                                  group, and please
                                                  forgive me if I'm
                                                  missing something
                                                  massive here, but I
                                                  get the impression
                                                  that most people here
                                                  don't spend a lot of
                                                  time doing
                                                  investigations. But
                                                  this is my life. If I
                                                  needed a subpeona for
                                                  every single
                                                  historical lookup,
                                                  pivot, and reverse
                                                  search, I would get
                                                  zero done due to a
                                                  lack of legal
                                                  authority. Many if not
                                                  most of the people
                                                  doing the heavy
                                                  lifting in
                                                  anti-cybercrime
                                                  efforts are private
                                                  citizens with no
                                                  government issued
                                                  authority. It seems
                                                  that the general
                                                  expectation here is
                                                  that limiting access
                                                  to people with badges
                                                  is OK, but I'm telling
                                                  you there is a severe
                                                  lack of those
                                                  skillsets and it will
                                                  be years before we see
                                                  widespread technical
                                                  literacy among the
                                                  police. Whatever
                                                  system results,
                                                  private citizens need
                                                  a path for
                                                  unrestricted and
                                                  automated access. And
                                                  if we want to talk
                                                  protecting privacy, I
                                                  think criminally
                                                  motivated violations
                                                  of privacy are far
                                                  more likely to affect
                                                  everyone's day to day
                                                  life right now, and
                                                  automated WHOIS
                                                  lookups are used
                                                  heavily especially in
                                                  anti-phishing and
                                                  anti-spam operations.</div>
                                                <div><br clear="none">
                                                </div>
                                                <div>With the status
                                                  quo, I can go on
                                                  fishing expeditions
                                                  through the WHOIS data
                                                  and turn up hundreds
                                                  of domains used for
                                                  the same type of
                                                  malicious activity,
                                                  and predict with a
                                                  high accuracy which
                                                  domains will be
                                                  malicious before they
                                                  are used for anything.
                                                  It sometimes turns up
                                                  domains owned by
                                                  innocent people, and I
                                                  doubt privacy minded
                                                  people would like
                                                  that, but the reality
                                                  is I rarely ever
                                                  encounter WHOIS data
                                                  that is convincing
                                                  PII. It's almost all
                                                  fake. And if it's not
                                                  fake, it's a company's
                                                  public contact info,
                                                  or it's a foolish
                                                  person who turned down
                                                  WHOIS privacy
                                                  protection, and will
                                                  change their WHOIS as
                                                  soon as the spam
                                                  starts flowing.</div>
                                                <div><br clear="none">
                                                </div>
                                                <div>Have there been any
                                                  studies on what
                                                  percentage of WHOIS
                                                  data is real and
                                                  correct? Can we ever
                                                  expect to have
                                                  meaningful data when
                                                  registrars are allowed
                                                  to take Bitcoins over
                                                  Tor as payment? At
                                                  what point does
                                                  "privacy" become an
                                                  empty argument when
                                                  some of these Internet
                                                  hosting/registrar
                                                  companies clearly
                                                  profit from
                                                  facilitating abuse,
                                                  and network defenders
                                                  block entire TLDs due
                                                  to the saturation of
                                                  abuse?</div>
                                                <div><br clear="none">
                                                </div>
                                                <div>From my vantage
                                                  point, I see great
                                                  benefit from seeing
                                                  patterns in the fake
                                                  data submitted by
                                                  fraudsters, and I see
                                                  few harms from the
                                                  privacy side of
                                                  things, because people
                                                  seem to generally
                                                  realize that "123 fake
                                                  st" is a perfectly
                                                  acceptable WHOIS
                                                  entry.</div>
                                                <div><br clear="none">
                                                </div>
                                                <div>I also recognize
                                                  this situation is
                                                  completely absurd.
                                                  Every aspect of this
                                                  is surely an abuse of
                                                  the original system.
                                                  But it seems like
                                                  building a pyramid
                                                  from the top down,
                                                  restricting access to
                                                  supposed "PII" that is
                                                  unlikely to contain
                                                  PII, to the detriment
                                                  of legitimate efforts
                                                  that also seek to
                                                  enhance privacy by
                                                  preventing criminal
                                                  theft of private data
                                                  like bank account
                                                  numbers.</div>
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                                                </div>
                                              </div>
                                            </span>
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                                                <div
class="m_-7998131626756526054m_-9163358764285633796m_3299425158225197531yiv9108844549gmail_quote"><span>On
                                                    Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at
                                                    9:14 PM, Sam
                                                    Lanfranco <span
                                                      dir="ltr">&lt;<a
                                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                        rel="nofollow"
                                                        shape="rect"
                                                        href="mailto:sam@lanfranco.net"
                                                        target="_blank">sam@lanfranco.net</a>&gt;</span>
                                                    wrote:<br
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                                                  </span>
                                                  <blockquote
class="m_-7998131626756526054m_-9163358764285633796m_3299425158225197531yiv9108844549gmail_quote"
                                                    style="margin:0 0 0
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                                                    solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>I
                                                      have to strongly
                                                      agree with Alex
                                                      that whatever the
                                                      criteria are for
                                                      thin data, they
                                                      cannot include
                                                      that thin data "is
                                                      transitive" in
                                                      some sort of bread
                                                      crumb trail
                                                      manner.<br
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                                                      Everything is
                                                      potentially
                                                      transitive in that
                                                      sense. I observe a
                                                      vehicle but all I
                                                      get is make, model
                                                      and license plate,
                                                      and in most
                                                      jurisdictions that
                                                      is all I get. It
                                                      is the vehicle
                                                      owner's "thin
                                                      data". Of course I
                                                      can hang around,
                                                      see that the car
                                                      has a baby seat,
                                                      witness a woman or
                                                      man putting a
                                                      child in the car,
                                                      assume that she/he
                                                      has legitimate
                                                      access to the car,
                                                      follow the car and
                                                      assemble more
                                                      personal
                                                      information (lives
                                                      at; works at;
                                                      shops at; visits;)
                                                      The license plate
                                                      didn't facilitate
                                                      that crumb train
                                                      discovery, but no
                                                      license plate
                                                      would hamper
                                                      legitimate seeking
                                                      of information
                                                      about who owns the
                                                      car (issuing a
                                                      parking ticket,
                                                      LEA investigation,
                                                      etc.) . License
                                                      plate is part of
                                                      thin data with no
                                                      gated access. Of
                                                      course, this will
                                                      change in the era
                                                      of the digital
                                                      vehicle. Depending
                                                      on security, and
                                                      authorization, one
                                                      will be able to
                                                      just ask the car,
                                                      and ask about a
                                                      lot of
                                                      things...like
                                                      whose cell phone
                                                      was in the
                                                      passenger's seat
                                                      last night, when I
                                                      was supposed to be
                                                      alone )-:<br
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                                                      There needs to be
                                                      a similar balance
                                                      (license plate but
                                                      no owner's name
                                                      unless wanted,
                                                      like Sam's Curry
                                                      Pizza Barn logo,
                                                      phone number and
                                                      website URL
                                                      painted on the
                                                      side).<br
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                                                      More Important,
                                                      have we made
                                                      progress
                                                      (convergence) on
                                                      the working
                                                      principles that
                                                      should be brought
                                                      to bear in
                                                      building a thin
                                                      data set. A lot of
                                                      time has been
                                                      spent looking at
                                                      good case and bad
                                                      case scenarios.
                                                      What operational
                                                      principles have
                                                      been distilled
                                                      from all these
                                                      examples? What is
                                                      the balance
                                                      between thin data
                                                      inclusion and
                                                      exclusion, and
                                                      design and
                                                      technical
                                                      solutions that can
                                                      be used to prevent
                                                      (for example)
                                                      robotic
                                                      harvesting? There
                                                      is another
                                                      frontier here, and
                                                      that is what
                                                      governments will
                                                      do to restrain or
                                                      enable certain
                                                      uses of thin data?
                                                      While ICANN needs
                                                      to be aware of
                                                      what is going on
                                                      there, that part
                                                      is beyond ICANN's
                                                      remit, but those
                                                      policies will help
                                                      shape some of the
                                                      context within
                                                      which ICANN deals
                                                      with the thin data
                                                      task.<br
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                                                      Sam L</span>
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                                                          On 2017-02-14
                                                          1:23 AM,
                                                          Deacon, Alex
                                                          wrote:<br
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                                                        <blockquote
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                                                          All,<br
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                                                          <br
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                                                          So it seems
                                                          the debate has
                                                          progressed
                                                          from “thin
                                                          data” to
                                                          “thick data”
                                                          (i.e. data
                                                          that includes
                                                          email).  I
                                                          know we are
                                                          all super
                                                          excited to
                                                          talk about
                                                          “thick data”
                                                          but I don’t
                                                          think we are
                                                          there yet (are
                                                          we?  Hopefully
                                                          I didn’t miss
                                                          the party…)<br
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                                                          Focusing on
                                                          thin data for
                                                          the moment I
                                                          struggle to
                                                          understand how
                                                          it is personal
                                                          data.  I do
                                                          not believe it
                                                          is.    As for
                                                          the odd logic
                                                          proposed by
                                                          some that the
                                                          property of
                                                          privacy is
                                                          transitive
                                                          (i.e. Because
                                                          “thin data”
                                                          can be used to
link/point/discover other data then “thin data” equals “personal data”)
                                                          I just don’t
                                                          buy it.<br
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                                                          I don’t
                                                          disagree with
                                                          much of what
                                                          was expressed
                                                          in this
                                                          thread,
                                                          however we
                                                          must keep in
                                                          mind that
                                                          balance and
                                                          proportionality
                                                          are important
                                                          concepts in
                                                          many (all?)
                                                          data privacy
                                                          laws.   Any
                                                          arguments that
                                                          imply that no
                                                          such balance
                                                          exists (or
                                                          should exist)
                                                          is obstructive
                                                          IMO.<br
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                                                          <br
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                                                          Alex<br
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                                                          <br
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                                                          <br
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                                                          <div>
                                                          <div
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                                                          On 2/13/17,
                                                          5:42 AM,  &lt;<a
moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                                                          href="mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org"
target="_blank">gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces@icann .org</a> on behalf of <a
moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                                                          href="mailto:michele@blacknight.com"
target="_blank">michele@blacknight.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br clear="none">
                                                          <br
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                                                               I agree
                                                          and I know
                                                          from how I’ve
                                                          used various
                                                          email
                                                          addresses that
                                                          they are
                                                          actively being
                                                          harvested and
                                                          spammed.<br
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                                                                    Also
                                                          it’s one of
                                                          the biggest
                                                          sources of
                                                          complaints we
                                                          get from our
                                                          clients
                                                          (registrants)<br
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                                                                    It’s
                                                          definitely not
                                                          an “edge
                                                          case”.<br
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                                                          Regards<br
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                                                          in an unjust
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                                                          -Confucius<br
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                                                          Dr Sam
                                                          Lanfranco
                                                          (Prof Emeritus
                                                          &amp; Senior
                                                          Scholar)<br
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                                                          Econ, York U.,
                                                          Toronto,
                                                          Ontario,
                                                          CANADA - M3J
                                                          1P3<br
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href="mailto:Lanfran@Yorku.ca" target="_blank">Lanfran@Yorku.ca</a> 
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                                                  Note to self: Pillage
                                                  BEFORE burning.</div>
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