Question on Bullet Proof Hosting

[Collin Kurre]

Demonstrating how a lack of privacy can lead to doxxing, death threats, etc. would be a compelling counter-narrative to combat pro-access arguments premised on security or public interest.

Is anyone aware of concrete stories of CSOs or individuals being targeted for harassment based on public WHOIS data? Ayden collected a couple such stories (from APC and an Indian feminist group) — would be great to have a collection to refer to.

Collin

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Collin Kurre
ARTICLE 19

> On Aug 7, 2018, at 3:10 AM, David Cake <dave at DAVECAKE.NET> wrote:
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> This is a vital point for NCSG - civil society organisation absolutely do have their staff and volunteers targeted for harassment, and WHOIS data has been used to do that in the past, and I think all organisational members of NCSG should be behind a strong defence of the PII of people associated with organisations. There have been multiple pushes from other parties that the privacy protection should not apply to corporations etc and we need to keep resisting that simplistic and inaccurate view.
> 
> David
> 
>> On 4 Aug 2018, at 12:41 am, Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at ICANNPOLICY.NINJA <mailto:aelsadr at ICANNPOLICY.NINJA>> wrote:
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>>>> And yes wholeheartedly should have a policy in that line to address and also protect the Individuals. Whilst it is not an issue with proxy or paying an extra to not reveal an Individual most of these registrants are companies. So on this end a policy is important.
>> 
>> Quite right. The GDPR is applicable in the “protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of personal data”, but it is probably worthwhile to note here that the GDPR also covers PII of natural persons representing organizations.
>> 
>> So if the contact in the registration data for a commercial entity I work for is me, and the contact listed is amr.elsadr at secondleveldomain.gTLD <mailto:amr.elsadr at secondleveldomain.gTLD>, this data is also covered by the GDPR.
>> 
>> Thanks again.
>> 
>> Amr
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