Hi Sam, When you say these are hundred million dollar issues for "the companies",which companies are you talking about? Large Registrars? I hope you are not comparing cybersecurity professionals and the good work they are trying to enable, to a completely separate privacy issue around data used for ad tracking or behavior tracking across websites. If I spent my days trying to protect people on the internet from bad things, I would certainly not appreciate any allusion that I was engaged on the whois data issue 'for the money'. Tim On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:20 AM, Sam Lanfranco <sam@lanfranco.net> wrote:
And the beat goes on:
“Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court. Social network instructed to delete illegally collected data or face €100m in fines after it loses case over consent and tracking.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/16/facebook-ordered-stop- collecting-user-data-fines-belgian-court
Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of public policy for EMEA, said the company was disappointed with the verdict and intended to appeal: “The cookies and pixels we use are industry standard technologies and enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to grow their businesses and reach customers across the EU.
*Important point: *For the social media companies the harvesting of personal data is more than a privacy issue. It is central to their business plans and their market valuations. To quote a Canadian litigation law firm, companies will litigate "...until hell freezes over", and when hell freezes over "...they will strap on ice skates and continue to litigate".
As we work with RDS/WhoIS policy it is worth remembering that these are hundred million dollar issues for the companies. They view tens of millions a year in litigation as a "good investment".
Sam L.
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