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Hardly. ICANN is not an EU organisation. The idea that GDPR is a global law is a new thing. Also, The letter also has harsh words for ICANN's proposed interim
by peoplewindow 8y ago
Hardly. ICANN is not an EU organisation. The idea that GDPR is a global law is a new thing.
Also,
The letter also has harsh words for ICANN's proposed interim solution, criticizing its vagueness
Of all the people to criticize others for vagueness, EU data protection people are the very last who should be talking. GDPR is nothing but vagueness.
- detaro 8y agoIt's not like WHOIS wasn't problematic before, e.g. even inside ICANN people have been pointing out conflicts with data protection laws for over a decade. And ICANN not being from regions with stricter regulation isn't actually that relevant, since ICANN doesn't directly run WHOIS. The registries and registrars do it, many of which are in the stricter jurisdictions. GDPR being globally applied certainly ups the overall pressure, and is the reason they want to change the overall wHOIS rules instead of making special rules for individual countries, but the key thing seems to be the fear that there actually might be painful fines now.
- _o_ 8y agoThe problem is that you don't understand GDPR. Please watch first few minutes of this: https://youtu.be/-stjktAu-7k?t=399 https://youtu.be/-stjktAu-7k?t=399 (or even whole, it explains a lot of things)