Danny Younger wrote:
Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights and in many other international and regional treaties. If you require some basic information on privacy rights as they exist in your jurisdiction, please feel free to contact:
Please do not patronize me and answer the original issue. You said ICANN as an organization should enshrine privacy in its bylaws, and I said it should not unless that privacy -- and its bounds -- are defined. As the person who raised this, it is your obligation to defend and justify what you want the ICANN Board to do to its bylaws. I am holding you to that obligation, it is not a done deal because the UN says so. By all means, ICANN should abide by the privacy laws of the countries in which it operates, but that is far from defining privacy as its own core value. The UN and Canadian government are not here asking the ICANN board to go beyond simply abiding by appropriate privacy laws. Therefore, you are not entitled to punt to them when challenged. _You_ need to explain why ICANN ought to enshrine ... as a "core value" ... the privacy of those who spam, harrass, cheat and slander, if you intend to convince others to share your initiative. In order to serve the public at large -- our constituency -- ALAC has a role to play in identifying the source of problems as a part of the path to solving those problems. This role is compromised IMO if ICANN obligates itself on principle to protect bad actors beyond the amount required by law. If your only argument is to assert privacy as a sacred concept beyond debate, well then you have no argument and we can move on to other issues. Within ICANN, I have already seen protection of intellectual property rights asserted beyond the bounds of law and international treaty, in a way that (to me) harms the public good. I would not stand by and approve other harm done by sacrificing responsibility in favour of the over-aggressive pursuit of privacy. - Evan