Evan The "right to be forgotten" debacle is tied to a single court ruling. Using that to question the "credibility" of ALL privacy law is a bit of a stretch Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains http://www.blacknight.co/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://www.technology.ie Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Twitter: http://twitter.com/mneylon ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845 From: evanleibovitch@gmail.com [mailto:evanleibovitch@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 3:29 PM To: Michele Neylon - Blacknight Cc: Vittorio Bertola; Kerry Brown; ICANN ALAC list; ICANN At-Large list Subject: Re: [At-Large] [ALAC] Fwd: A million domains taken down by email checks The privacy issue you raise is one that EU based registrars face every day. FWIW, I'm seeing that the EU position on privacy has been, shall we say, declining in credibility<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/06/right-to-be-forgotten-i...>. It has probably been necessary to engage the experiment to see what happens when obsession with privacy -- to the exclusion of accountability, free speech rights or public interest -- is carried to its logical conclusions. It wouldn't surprise me to see some of these excesses rolled back.