[At-Large] Privacy and domain abuse vs the IP constituency
John R. Levine
johnl at iecc.com
Mon May 9 00:31:49 UTC 2011
>> Now, the fact that LEAs may not be efficient in fighting crime,
>> especially in an international context, is no reason to build a
>> parallel enforcement system run entirely by the private sector with
>> no accountability to the rest of the society.
I get the impression you aren't very familiar with the way that law
enforcement works.
For Internet stuff, they are constantly working in tandem with non-LE
people in industry and academia. I work with them in mailing lists,
occasionally on the phone, and face to face at conferences. Now and then
I testify in court. For obvious reasons I can't discuss the details, but
the idea that there is a Chinese wall between LE and non-LE, and that
non-LE don't use WHOIS info to assist LE is laughable.
I think we all agree that natural people have privacy rights. But about
99% of domains are not registered by natural people, which makes it
obvious that the right way to hande the ones that are registered by
natural people is as exception cases.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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