Tag Archives: Whois

EU: DOMAIN NAMES AND WHOIS INFORMATION IN A POST-GDPR WORLD (GTLDS UPDATE)

By Claire Sng and John Wilks  With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) having taken effect across the EU on 25 May 2018, this has meant a big change to the availability of WHOIS data (ie data recording – among … Continue reading

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Draft Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Whois Principles for Sao Paulo Meeting

Prof. Milton Mueller: “A U.S.-led Task Force in ICANNs Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) released version 3 of its “Whois “Principles” in preparation for the ICANN meeting in Brazil, where it will be debated and finalized. European countries pushed back against … Continue reading

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ICANN’s Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) Meeting on Whois, the New MoU, and Right to Priva

Join ICANNs Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) on 5 Dec. at the ICANN Board Meeting in Sáo Paulo, Brazil for a discussion on ICANNs Whois personal database policy and its implication for the privacy rights of Internet users. Read more detail … Continue reading

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Summary of GNSO Public Forum on Whois, São Paulo, Brazil, 4th December 2006

Robin Gross: “I wanted to pick up on this point about security, and the need for security with the Whois database. Avri talked about the security rights of Internet users, not just of the intellectual property holders but the users … Continue reading

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Comments of Robin Gross on Whois at Sao Paulo Public Forum

“… This year, the US Federal Trade Commission has announced that now in the US, online data mining is the number one crime. Privacy experts, in particular, EPIC, have testified that it is the Whois database that is one of … Continue reading

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