14 Jan
2005
14 Jan
'05
3:16 a.m.
The current pretense of "privacy" is nothing more than a convenient mechanism for registrars to pad their wallets and evade responsible for facilitating abuse.
As an aside, I used a (wicked big) competitor's "privacy" service to regsiter a domain for a political worker who wanted to whistleblow but not be identified. My customer could now use a web log service such as Duncan Black did under the name of "atrios", and obtain casual (but not subpoena-proof) data protection (non-publication of customer profile data). Broadly I agree that "privacy" as a product under contract law is not a better solution than data protection as a right under human rights. However, data protection isn't as available to all potential registrants.