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From the Charter:
Impact on privacy and data protection: how would ‘thick’ Whois affect privacy and data protection, also taking into account the involvement of different jurisdictions with different laws and legislation with regard to data privacy as well as possible cross border transfers of registrant data?
Information relevant to this subject that will assist the WG to make a determination whether for this particular topic 'thick' Whois would be beneficial or not:
| Relevant section | Source | Submitted by | Date of submission |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proponents of thick Whois point to ICANN's community-developed "Procedure For Handling Whois Conflicts with Privacy Law" http://www.icann.org/en/processes/icann-procedure-17jan08.htm as a means for resolving any potential situations where a registry operator's Whois obligations are alleged to be inconsistent with local legal requirements concerning data privacy. Also it could be argued that, as indicated above, all of the data that might be published by a thick registry is already public data since it would already be published by the registrar. | http://icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/thick-thin-whois-30may09-en.pdf | Marika | 21 November |
| ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement obligates registrars to ensure that each registrant is notified and consents to the purposes and recipients of any personal data collected from the registrant in association with every domain registration | http://icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/thick-thin-whois-30may09-en.pdf | Marika | 21 November |