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The EPDP Team previously requested a summary of ICANN org’s contacts and engagements with the EPDP and DPAs. ICANN org provided a response, which is provided again below for reference:
QUESTION: Can ICANN summarize in some searchable form the contacts and engagements with the EDPB and/or other DPAs in relation to the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data?
RESPONSE: ICANN org has been open and transparent with our engagements with the EDPB and DPAs. All of the formal written communications from EDPB and DPAs are published on ICANN correspondence. In addition, we’ve had informal verbal conversations with the EDPB and DPAs to educate, inform, and ask for guidance. Summaries of those informal conversations are published in blogs. To assist the EPDP Team in its work, ICANN org will provide the EPDP Team with a compiled list of correspondence received and blogs published thus far, including the topic of each correspondence/blog.
As follow-up to the above response, attached is a summary of correspondence between ICANN org and the EPDP/DPAs, as well as announcements and blogs relating to ICANN org’s GDPR-related efforts. The document is marked as draft so that the EPDP Team can review and provide suggestions for re-organization or re-structuring of the content to best meet the EPDP Team’s needs.
QUESTION: For which ICANN policies is admin/tech contact information currently a required data element and/or referenced in the policy?
RESPONSE: Administrative and technical contact information is referenced in the following ICANN policies and procedures:
QUESTION: We have spent most of this meeting exploring the role of compliance at ICANN, in order to support a proposal that ICANN has an implicit contract with the registrant and that therefore 6 1 b applies as a grounds for processing. This would also facilitate ICANN operating a UAM on behalf of those who want the data. It might also explain Goran’s initiative in seeking some kind of recognition by EU authorities that ICANN has a kind of quasi-regulator status, as the authority vested with the responsibility to manage the DNS. Given that all of this is outside the current configuration of ICANN as data controller, which would be more clear had we done a DPIA and had we adequate data maps to work with….can we either get back to our Charter questions that we were mandated to address by the GNSO, or get a full explanation of what is going on and why we continue to be focused on the access question.
RESPONSE: This request appears to be directed at the EPDP Team and not ICANN org as ICANN org does not dictate the direction of the EPDP Team’s discussion.
QUESTION: Why hasn’t a Data Protection Impact Assessment been carried out to clarify data flows and ICANN’s relationship with the data subject in light of its acknowledged role as a joint controller and Article 35 of the GDPR?
RESPONSE: This question was also asked during the Data Protection/Privacy Update Webinar hosted by ICANN org on 8 October 2018. John Jeffrey, ICANN’s General Counsel and Secretary provided the following response:
“This is something that has been considered since the very beginning. One of the issues is when to do that in a way that is most timely and useful and how to do that. We continue to evolve the thinking of how the interpretation of GDPR applies to WHOIS. We have a number of questions which have been addressed directly to the DPAs and the EDPB and we’ve have an ongoing discussion with the EC about how to interpret the GDPR. We believe that those are a better format at this point than doing the assessment, but we continue to evaluate whether that assessment would be the right thing to do and when.”
The presentation for the webinar is posted here, and the Adobe Connect recording is here. The question and response start at 0:27:00 in the Adobe Connect recording.