ICANN - Respect Our Privacy

[Corey Edwards <corey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN –

Regarding the proposed rules governing companies that provide WHOIS privacy 
services (as set forth in the Privacy and Policy Services Accreditation Issues 
Policy document):

I urge you to respect internet users' rights to privacy and due process. 
- Everyone deserves the right to privacy.
- No one’s personal information should be revealed without a court order, 
regardless of whether the request comes from a private individual or law 
enforcement agency. 

As a personal privacy consultant and advocate, the very thought that ICANN is 
considering such atrocious rules is sickening. This is something that would be 
easy to see being proposed by the United States Government, the NSA, CIA, or 
other such agencies. However, to see ICANN proposing such changes leaves me 
hoping there is far more to the story than what meets the eye.

Regardless of the ICANN decisions, I will continue to advise my clients to use 
third party registrants to handle their domains so as to protect the 
information ICANN seems unconcerned with.

I strongly urge ICANN to reconsider these outrageous rules before the Online 
Community revolts and develops an alternative to ICANN.

Private information should be kept private. Thank you. 

Corey Edwards
T: +1 (615) 375-6622
www.cedwardsmedia.com

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Dickson, TN 37056
United States of America