ICANN Council Rejects Domain Owner Anonymity
Posted by James | Filed under Privacy, Web
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted against a proposal on Wednesday to grant internet domain owners anonymity.
Instead, the ICANN council voted 17-7 to continue studying whether it should abandon its policy requiring domain site owners’ personal or proxy information to appear on a Whois search. After nearly two hours of debate, the group voted to investigate formulating a policy that ensures “appropriate privacy safeguards for natural persons, lawful access to data for rights enforcement, consumer protection, law enforcement and anti-crime purposes.”
The council for the governing body of domain registrations, voted down a measure that would have allowed Whois reporting requirements to expire at the end of 2008.
Tags: anonymity, current, domains, icann, Privacy, Web, whois
Google launches privacy channel on YouTube
Posted by James | Filed under Geek, Privacy, Security, Tube, Web
Google launched a privacy channel on YouTube on Wednesday with videos explaining its privacy policies. The move comes on the eve of a two-day Federal Trade Commission-hosted town hall event on behavioral ad targeting to be held in Washington, D.C.
In a Google video titled “Google Search Privacy: Plain and Simple,” a Google support engineer draws on a whiteboard, explaining what type of information is collected by Google servers, such as IP address and cookie data, when you conduct a Google search.
Read on for the video, and more…
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