<story><title>Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners&apos; personal Whois info</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/23/facebook_gdpr_workaround/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sfgweilr4f</author><text>From TFA, Facebook &amp;quot;... continues to claim that being a registered trademark holder is sufficient to be granted full access to the Whois database, and that all other routes are unduly burdensome.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So any fraudster just needs a registered trademark and they would, according to Facebook&amp;#x27;s request, be granted full access to the database.&lt;p&gt;And no oversight, as &amp;quot;all other routes are unduly burdensome.&amp;quot; That means they DON&amp;#x27;T want subpeonas or any kind of restriction in between like a judge who could evaluate the request based on some kind of merit. No limits. Just a giant straw they can use to get all that juicy data.&lt;p&gt;Facebook&amp;#x27;s request doesn&amp;#x27;t sound very good to me. Sounds great for criminals though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners&apos; personal Whois info</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/23/facebook_gdpr_workaround/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notRobot</author><text> &amp;gt; Progress has been slow going, in large part because commercial entities desperately want access to the full registration data of domains – which includes people’s home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses – and have been trying to find ways around the privacy protections.&lt;p&gt;Ouch. This is going to make it very hard for people to host content on the web anonymously, forcing them to link their entire identity to their website. This sucks.</text></comment>