ICANN Comments to EDPB and content regulation

[farzaneh badii]

Hello all,

In my spare time, I got to read ICANN's letter dated 21 December 2020 to
EDPB about compliance with GDPR.

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/icann-org-comments-edpb-recs-21dec20-en.pdf

There was one alarming issue raised in this letter, and since the Internet
community has been mentioned, I think we should at least ask Bruna to raise
it with the CEO next time she talks to him. I know we haven't drafted
other  important comments but I haven't followed EPDP so will leave that to
the members.

P.2: "The SSAD is therefore instrumental for stopping and preventing the
*dissemination of illegal content and in order to avoid related societal
harm*s". This is alarming because the SSAD is serving ICANN's mission which
has nothing to do with the regulation of illegal content and that is
outside of its mission. I don't know what they mean by societal harm. We
have many times told ICANN not to be careless when it comes to the limited
function of WHOIS and relate it to content regulation. They said they
wouldn't. But here they are definitely going into those territories.

There are other matters in the letter as well but I haven't had the time to
read closely, for example they are talking about "thick WHOIS" not
happening because of the strict international transfer. I am not sure where
epdp is at with discussing thick whois. Can we even have it in place?


Best






Farzaneh
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