[Rt4-whois] Interesting example of Privacy and Business

[Kathy Kleiman]

Dear Lutz,
Thanks for your email, and thanks so much for leading in the chat room 
yesterday during the Public Forum. I am so glad we had a voice 
responding in real time there too, much appreciated!
Kathy

:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:39:55AM -0700, James M. Bladel wrote:
>>     Except we are talking about it, so it didn't really work.  :)
> An an other one: Somebody from a German LKA (Law enforcement agency)
> contacted me last week with this interesting question:
>
> They had lost an identity of a person in a witness protection program by a
> simple WHOIS query (in this case using an IP WHOIS lookup). So they ask, how
> can they use "privacy" or "proxy" services which does not point to the
> police in order to protect their clients?
>
> It's also important, that they do not want to have a private company out
> there, which can correlate those identities with police activities.
>
> Currently they simply ask the ISPs and registrars to put in obviously false
> or no information at all into the WHOIS records. They fear, the have to
> provide something to "comply" with "new policies of ICANN".
>
> BTW: You are doing a fantastic job there. Thank you!
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