[Advisors] ICANN, privacy and human rights

[Marita Moll]

Hello advisors. I spend a lot of time reading stuff that comes out of 
ICANN or is about what is happening at ICANN,  but I rarely find 
anything that sums up some of the major issues currently at play in that 
forum in a somewhat accessible way. I thought this article was worth 
circulating. I hope it might spark some interest in some of the battles 
that are being waged under the radar of most internet end-users, the 
results of which will somehow, affect all of us eventually.

/ICANN at a crossroads: GDPR and Human Rights//
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/All internet users have dealings with the Internet Corporation for 
Assigned Names and Numbers, yet the vast majority have never heard of 
ICANN. Responsible for deciding how the Domain Name System (DNS) is run, 
ICANN may be a technical standard-setting body, but its policies and 
activities acquire political nuances more often than not. At its core, 
there is a distinction between ICANN the organisation, incorporated in 
California, and the ICANN community, a multistakeholder group of 
volunteers who develop the policies that are subsequently implemented by 
the organisation./

/Fifteen years ago, and only a few years after ICANN was established, 
European data protection regulators had already////spotted the flaws 
<http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinion-recommendation/files/2003/wp76_en.pdf>////with 
ICANN's WHOIS service, a public database of registrants' contact 
details. At the end of 2017, mere months before European General Data 
Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, ICANN had yet to devise a 
plan to make its WHOIS registrant database compliant. However, this is 
no longer the era of paltry fines for violating data protection laws, 
when compliance was at best facultative./

Read more at: 
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180719_icann_at_a_crossroads_gdpr_and_human_rights/

Marita


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