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[Ayden Férdeline]

Hi there,

We do need to strike the right balance between privacy and security; it doesn’t have to be an either/or situation. We can protect civil liberties while also addressing cybercrime that may exist in the Domain Name System.

Indeed, when we have talked about the future availability of domain name registration data, the NCSG has acknowledged that law enforcement may have a need to access these records, because they do have a need to tackle cybercrime. But they should do so in a proportionate and accountable manner.

Just yesterday we learned of a [French police officer](https://www.zdnet.com/article/french-police-officer-caught-selling-confidential-police-data-on-the-dark-web/) who was selling confidential police data on the dark web. This is not a common occurrence, but it goes to show why we cannot blindly trust law enforcement to do ‘the right thing’ and to use their access for ‘good’ purposes.

We want people to have the freedom to use the DNS to express their thoughts and to assemble freely, and while some people might abuse it from time to time, that alone is not reason enough to allow governments or others to trample over our civil and personal liberties.

Kind regards,

Ayden

> On 5 Oct 2018, at 09:38, Ade Bo <adebodea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Johan,
>
> I guess you might be right in some why, but lets just say it’s not just about the rights of the good people registering genuine businesses and doing good. Lets just say people register domains not just for the good but also for harming others, like children.
> In that case till now even if they were not the ones that were supposed to take care of these issues they tried to help.
> If we think that ICANN changed and switched so have businesses, criminals and other things together with the technological evolution. Furthermore if we think that if ICANN would not have hands on the domain name registration others will not either we are really far from the truth.
>
> Sometimes we want to do good and be free of surveil but we also do harm for those who have no protection from the criminals. This brings me to the see that there is a huge gap between what we want and what people are capable of doing. We want total freedom but are we ready to fight the crime online as well?
>
>> On 5 Oct 2018, at 09:22, Johan Helsingius <julf at JULF.COM> wrote:
>>
>> On 05-10-18 00:46, Kathy Kleiman wrote:
>>
>>> I hope I'm not too late too.  /I would like to know why ICANN has
>>> decided to re-make itself from being a manager and custodian of the
>>> Internet infrastructure to being the data miner of the domain name
>>> registration data of 140+ million gTLD domain name registrants? When and
>>> why did our priorities and goals so radically change and how can we
>>> change them back?/
>>
>> I guess it happened at the same time enforcement of intellectual
>> property become one of the core purposes of ICANN.
>>
>> Julf
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