[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Facebook loses Belgian court case over consent and tracking

[Sam Lanfranco]

Hi Tim,

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.

*/As a brief aside:/* 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.

Sam L.


On 2/18/2018 5:43 PM, Chen, Tim wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> When you say these are hundred million dollar issues for "the 
> companies",which companies are you talking about?  Large Registrars?
>
> 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'.
>
> Tim
>

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