Privacy activists oppose EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2
From the full text quote at the bottom of Breyer&quot;s blog:<p>&gt; 4. Member States shall ensure that the TLD registries and the entities providing domain name registration services for the TLD publish, in accordance with Article 6(1)(c) and Article 6(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016&#x2F;679 and without undue delay after the registration of a domain name, certain domain name registration data, such as the domain name and the name of the legal person.<p>That does read pretty ambiguously like at the very least my name becoming public when I register a domain. Opening for example an anti-fascist blog under its own domain this would become a real life threat if you don&#x27;t happen to be called John Smith or the local equivalent.<p>Overall I come down pretty hard on Breyer&#x27;s side of the argument here. This is the DNS equivalent to enforcing operators of online forums to check users&#x27; real names. It&#x27;s ripe for abuse and it will inevitably be used to chill dissenting voices.<p>The fact that the register (and the people they interviewed) see this differently seems to be that they trust that data collected will only be used by &quot;trusted&quot; authorities. But with the above quote I don&#x27;t see that being the case, and the trust in authorities is really only an effective protection if your website happens to defend the status quo, good luck otherwise.