ICANN - Respect Our Privacy

[Rob Shinewald <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
So long as there is accurate referral information in the private WHOIS, 
such as an email address that forwards to the original registering user, 
then there is no reason to publicly expose this information (without a 
court order).
Above and beyond that, .com URLs may have been originally intended for 
commercial purposes, but myself and many others have been using it for 
non-commercial purposes for years. It has been a generic TLD for a long 
time now, and to cast such a wide net as to encompass the whole .com TLD 
is overreaching at best.
Private information should be kept private. Thank you.