Thanks Michele, great blog post. I was at an event in Berlin last night organised by the Mozilla Foundation, where they had brought together a number of senior industry representatives to talk about their GDPR preparations. (All were confident that they now complied with the GDPR, because they begun their preparations some four years ago.) One of the questions put to the panel was whether they feared the Data Protection Authorities (DPA) taking action against them, and a comment from a director at BlackBerry stuck with me. He responded in the negative, saying it was unlikely the DPAs would come after them, as they have made a good faith effort to comply with the GDPR. However, his fear was that an "ambulance chaser" type firm would emerge that would specialise in filing routine and repetitive civil suits against firms that have achieved 99.999% compliance with the GDPR and have made "very small errors" that the DPAs would not have the resources to investigate. I wonder if any such law firms will make their way into the ICANN ecosystem? Food for thought... Ayden ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 13 April 2018 2:14 PM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com> wrote:
I posted about it on our company blog earlier today:
https://blacknight.blog/game-over-for-public-whois-article-29-gives-icann-th...
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From: council <council-bounces@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of Ayden Férdeline <icann@ferdeline.com> Reply-To: Ayden Férdeline <icann@ferdeline.com> Date: Thursday 12 April 2018 at 23:24 To: GNSO Council List <council@gnso.icann.org> Subject: [council] Article 29 WP Letter to ICANN
This letter from the Article 29 Working Party to ICANN is well worth a read:
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jelinek-to-marby-11apr1...
ICANN has also published a post here, expressing disappointment that "the letter does not mention our request for a moratorium on enforcement of the law until we implement a model."
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-04-12-en
Best wishes,
Ayden Férdeline