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NTIA Nixes Privacy Protection in Whois (Circle ID)

Once again the US Government has sided with the Intellectual Property cartel and ignored practical privacy intereests.

Many registrars have gotten complacent about reforming the Whois-Privacy relationship. After all, they can sell additional privacy protection to their subscribers for an extra $5-10. Seems like a perfect "market oriented" interim solution, as the so-called "bottom up" policy development process of ICANN figures out how to provide tiered access. Not so fast. [CircleID]

Posted by mikki on February 11, 2005 06:00 PM |

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