[NCUC-DISCUSS] Important note on Privacy at ICANN

[Ayden Férdeline]

Thanks for flagging this, Farzaneh. And thank you for highlighting the farce that is this GDPR "cross community" session in Johannesburg. That Stephanie Perrin - an internationally recognised privacy expert, winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award, and someone familiar with the workings of ICANN - is not welcome to speak says it all really. So very disappointing.

Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline

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> Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Important note on Privacy at ICANN
> Local Time: June 22, 2017 9:34 PM
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> From: farzaneh.badii at gmail.com
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> Dear All,
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> As this blog post shows https://www.icann.org/news/blog/dialogues-on-the-evolving-data-privacy-and-protection-regulations ICANN is now thinking about how to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation ahead of the time. Which is good news because they might, after all, do something about privacy.
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> But, and I mentioned this to the CEO, they are working with the registries and registrars and I am not sure with who else. We are not sure when and where registrants are represented in this task force:
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> " At the direction of ICANN president and CEO Göran Marby, we formed an internal GDPR Task Force comprised of senior leaders and subject matter experts to focus on this important matter. This team is focused on parallel tracks: contracted parties and engagement, and the ICANN organization. In relation to the latter, an internal review of our operations is currently underway."
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> Also the blog invites the Johannesburg attendees and remote participants to the cross community session on GDPR. I was involved with organizing that session and I argued repeatedly to have a registrant representative on that panel (Stephanie) to no avail. At least I managed to insert "registrants" in the description and the group supported that addition. So I criticized the way it was arranged. But I do encourage you to attend it: https://schedule.icann.org/event/B3ot/gdpr-and-its-potential-impact-looking-for-practical-solutions
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> Best
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> Farzaneh
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