The Looming Battle over the GDPR and the Purpose of Whois in ICANN
ICANN Corp seems to have finally taken the tension between Whois and privacy rights seriously, thanks to the impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe.
In preparing for the advent of GDPR, ICANN has solicited legal advice from Hamilton Advokatbyrå, a Swedish law firm, regarding possible conflicts between its Whois policies and European data protection law. The latest of these legal advice memos purports to explain how the processing of data by the Whois services might be changed “in order to become compliant with the GDPR.”
Source: The Looming Battle over the GDPR and the Purpose of Whois in ICANN – Internet Governance Project
