[article] ICANN pays to push Whois case to European Court of Justice

[Tomslin Samme-Nlar]

"Accountability"....The lack of, seems to be the fuel of continuous bad
decisions here.

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Tomslin Samme-Nlar




On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 at 08:25, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:

> An excellent article, as always, in *The Register* on the state of WHOIS:
>
> *ICANN pays to push Whois case to European Court of Justice *
> *Just has to lose GDPR rulings in other courts first*
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/15/icann_whois_gdpr/
>
> "... what on earth is ICANN doing? And why is it spending millions of
> dollars pursuing flawed legal challenge after flawed legal challenge? The
> answer is simple: the organization has more money than sense.
>
> On top of paying senior executives double-digit pay raises every year
> since, the organization also expanded every aspect of its work.
> Controversially, it gave millions of dollars to a slew of former top US
> government officials, including former Secretaries of State Condoleezza
> Rice and Madeleine Albright, and former National Security Advisor Stephen
> Hadley, during the process to grant it autonomy from the US government –
> and then attempted to hide that expenditure from its own constituencies.
>
> ... All of which is to say that ICANN has a huge amount of cash on hand
> that it has been spending unwisely and with little or no accountability. It
> decides what it wants to do, publishes a report saying so, and then votes
> to do exactly what it proposed several months later having run through the
> pretense of a public comment period."
>
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