[ga-sys] International Working Group on Data Protection inTelecommunications

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Report: http://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/doc/int/iwgdpt/dns_en.htm

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It is essential that the purposes of the collection and publication of
personal data of domain name holders are being specified.

The amount of data collected and made publicly available in the course of
the registration of a domain name should be restricted to what is essential
to fulfil the purpose specified. In this respect the Working Group has
reservations against a mandatory publication of any data exceeding name
(which might also be the name of a company and not of a natural person),
address and e-mail-address in cases where the domain name holder is not
himself responsible for the technical maintenance of the domain but has this
done through a service provider (as is the case with many private persons
who have registered domain names).

Any additional data (especially telephone and fax number) - although they
might be collected by the registry as necessary with respect to its task -
should in such cases either refer to the respective service provider or only
be made available with the explicit consent of the data subject. Mandatory
publication of telephone and fax numbers of domain name holders would be a
problem when private persons register domain names, where the number to be
provided might be their home number. The right not to have telephone numbers
published - as recognised in most of the national telecommunications data
protection regimes - should not be abolished when registering a domain.

Regards,
Joanna

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