[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Reputation systems are not just nice to have (was Re: What we want redux)

John Bambenek jcb at bambenekconsulting.com
Tue Oct 3 22:54:17 UTC 2017


I am not sure why it follows that if abuse were a primary purpose that means more data gets collected... no one is asking for more info. 

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John Bambenek

> On Oct 3, 2017, at 17:04, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/10/17 2:56 pm, allison nixon wrote:
>> Those and others are currently listed on ICANN's website as uses for
>> WHOIS data. To reject anti-abuse as a purpose would be to shift away
>> from the currently accepted purposes of WHOIS.
> 
> I'm arguing that it's a secondary purpose, not the primary purpose.  A
> secondary purpose is a purpose for which information, that was gathered
> for a primary purpose, can also legitimately be used.  So for ICANN to
> call these uses of WHOIS data "legitimate" does not imply for purposes
> of data protection law that they are the primary purpose for collection
> of that data.
> 
> The distinction is that if anti-abuse is a primary purpose, we would be
> collecting a lot more information than if it is a secondary purpose.  (I
> accept you're not arguing for the collection of additional information,
> but my opposition to anti-abuse as a primary purpose is to counter such
> arguments.)
> 
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