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<p>Hi Tim, <br>
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<p>No, completely to the contrary. My point with that dollars
reference was that in some cases litigation is the preferred
business response, rather than compliance and paying fines. Also,
the big revenues in mining big data are outside the DNS sphere,
and outside the abuses and "bad things" that websites do to
people. The big EU fines are more likely to hit social media than
Registrars, although they are risks there as well. The revenues,
and privacy violations, will come from profiling users by mining
big data for scraps of personal date to individualize target
marketing. <br>
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<p><b><i>As a brief aside:</i></b> This goes well beyond the remit
of ICANN and is actually worse than just being inundated by
adverts base on personal online behavior. Artificial Intelligence
mining apps are increasingly customizing the "news" one gets from
news feeds, to help "glue the eyeballs" to the adverts, creating a
news silo of one. (That is amusing for me since I virtually live
in two towns in two countries). Even more worrisome is the growing
practice for A.I. companies where A.I. "writes" the news releases,
now mainly in sports and finance, for thousands of print and
online news outlets. I know all of this is outside the ICANN remit
so I will stop there. <br>
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<p>Sam L. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/18/2018 5:43 PM, Chen, Tim wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Sam,
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<div>When you say these are hundred million dollar issues for
"the companies",which companies are you talking about? Large
Registrars?</div>
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<div>I hope you are not comparing cybersecurity professionals
and the good work they are trying to enable, to a completely
separate privacy issue around data used for ad tracking or
behavior tracking across websites. If I spent my days trying
to protect people on the internet from bad things, I would
certainly not appreciate any allusion that I was engaged on
the whois data issue 'for the money'.</div>
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<div>Tim</div>
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