https://news.hitb.org/ en https://news.hitb.org/content/europe-slams-whois-data-demands <article data-history-node-id="45701" role="article" class="node article teaser clearfix UTF-8"> <header> <h2 class="title text-center"><a href="/content/europe-slams-whois-data-demands" rel="bookmark"><span>Europe slams WHOIS data demands</span> </a></h2> <div class="meta submit clearfix"> <div class="date text-right"> <span class="lowercase">posted on</span>October 2, 2012 </div> <div class="author"> <span class="lowercase">by</span> <span><span>l33tdawg</span></span> </div> </div> </header> <div class="image-default"> <div> <a href="/content/europe-slams-whois-data-demands" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/1000px-Regional_Internet_Registries_world_map.svg_.png?itok=vmtmEoVm" width="220" height="97" alt="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois" title="Credit: Wikipedia" /> </a> </div> <div class="image-credit"> <strong>Credit:</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois</a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div><p>A European watchdog has opposed moved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Named and Numbers (ICANN) to force domain name registrars to improve accuracy of the WHOIS database.</p> <p>Jacob Kohnstamm, chairman of the European Union's working party on data protection, told ICANN's chairman and interim CEO in a letter that the proposed changes to the organisation's registrar accreditation agreements would likely run contrary to European citizens' right to privacy.</p></div> </div> <div class="meta link clearfix"> <div class="comment"> <span class="lowercase">no</span>comment </div> <div class="share text-center show-for-medium"> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://news.hitb.org/content/europe-slams-whois-data-demands" data-a2a-title="Europe slams WHOIS data demands"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"><span class="fa fa-facebook"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin"><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_email"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a></span> </div> <div class="read-more"><a href="/content/europe-slams-whois-data-demands"><span class="lowercase">&#8594;</span>READ MORE</a></div> </div> </article> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:56:00 +0000 l33tdawg 45701 at https://news.hitb.org