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<p>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. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/27/2017 3:51 PM, Jeremy Malcolm
wrote:<br>
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On 27/4/17 5:23 am, John Horton wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">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.
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<div class="gmail_default">And, after all, why should
privacy protections that apply to a minority of the
world's population force a global change everywhere?</div>
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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.<br>
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