on Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 11:40:22AM +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: > This *is* a law that "helps protect the innocent victims". Yes, it is > sometimes poorly (or intentionally wrongly) implemented, such an abusing the > "legitimate interest" concept included in the GDPR by many advertisers to > still flood you with advertising. It may also have unwanted consequences as > anonymizing the data of domain holders in registries, if these holders are > private persons. But in fact in my opinion GDPR is overall a good step in > protecting the rights of the individual.
This is the output of a whois lookup of a domain hosted by OVH: Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant Organization: LOCARCHIVES Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant Country: FR Registrant Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant Phone Ext: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant Fax Ext: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY. Send message to contact by visiting https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/lp/request-ovhcloud-registered-domain/ Registry Admin ID: Admin Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin State/Province: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Country: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Phone Ext: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Fax Ext: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Admin Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY. Send message to contact by visiting https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/lp/request-ovhcloud-registered-domain/ Registry Tech ID: Tech Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech State/Province: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Country: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Phone Ext: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Fax Ext: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Tech Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY. Send message to contact by visiting https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/lp/request-ovhcloud-registered-domain/ Name Server: dns105.ovh.net Name Server: ns105.ovh.net DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2021-07-01T17:56:10.0Z <<< I count two useful data points. What a ridiculous waste of time, resources, energy, and effort. And that's followed by some 60+ lines of explanatory language in both French and English, which is a pack of lies on the face of it ("The data in this Whois is at your disposal with the aim of supplying you the information only, that is helping you in the obtaining of the information about or related to a domain name registration record."). Three if you count the name servers, but I don't generally regard an NS record as PII, especially when it's one from one of the largest Web hosting conglomerates in the world. Visiting the domain in a browser redirects to a OVH webmail login screen. Looking up the domain in Google gives you the parent organization, as well as a link to a French Wikipedia page containing their address, leadership, history, URL, etc. so the net effect is that GDPR destroying WHOIS has provided absolutely no "privacy protection", and the illusory belief that blocking one of thousands of potential sources of information will protect anyone's privacy (not that corporations are people, despite whatever laws may state the contrary) is asinine and delusional. -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2553 w: http://hesketh.com/ Internet security and antispam hostname intelligence: http://enemieslist.com/ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
