Seen it and commented elsewhere.  IMHO, a day late and likely, a dollar short.

FWIW, Schrems was up and about early Friday morning has filed suits in 4 EU jurisdictions - France Germany, Belgium, Austria - against Facebook, Google, Whatsapp et. al that they are obtaining user consent contrary to law; in effect coercing consent and using the data disproportionately.

I have not at this point read the pleadings but a few more discerning analysts that I follow believe there is a uniform subtext to the filings. It appears to state concerns that national legislation may give too much leeway to individual states to alter the impact/intent of the directive.

I have a feeling Schrems will likely triumph before ICANN.

-Carlton


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On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:05 PM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-05-25-en

For those who might not have noticed, on Friday, ICANN announced that it has filed injunction proceedings against a German registrar (associated with TUCOWS) that had informed ICANN that under the GDPR, it would no longer be collecting certain data (Admin and Technical contact info).

Collection is a critical step, in that if data is not collected, it cannot be released to accredited parties, no matter how good their justification is.

As I understand it (and that could be wrong), this is an interesting step, in that it takes the issue out of the hands of data commissioners and into the courts, where presumably ICANN will be given an opportunity to explain why it believes that such collection is important. Although data commissioners have been reported to say that they have no legal basis to grant a delay, this is something that the courts can do pending resolution.

Alan

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