Re: [ga] Privacy and Whois databases

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

They require disclosure of private customer information.  As I read them,
a registrar must put my home address and phone number on a world-readable
database (whois) and also sell it to bulk buyers.  This conflicts with how
both the French and German implementations have been explained to me,
although I emphasize this is all second-hand -- not the product of my own
research.

On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Mikael Pawlo wrote:

> At 22:52 1999-10-16 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> >I think that the whois terms of service in ICANN's agreement with
> >NSI violate EU data protection law.
> 
> Hmm - how did you reach such a conclusion?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mikael
> 
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