[address-policy-wg] Post Ident / Post Brief

* Daniel Roesen wrote:
> But a German copying his/her personal ID is certainly violating the law.

Ack.

> BTW, this is only true for personal ID card (Personalausweis) and
> possibly passport, but not for e.g. driving license as far as I'm aware.

You are right.

> in the first place. This is a fundamental data protection principle in
> german law (which again, NCC doesn't have to abide to as far as I
> understand - IANAL):
>
><german> Datenschutz beginnt mit Datenvermeidung </german>
> (data protection starts with preventing collection of data)

It's also the common baseground for international data protection regulations.

OTOH the Law Enforcement Agencies and Intellectual Property Lobbyists (at
least at ICANN) are very very keen about collecting as accurate information
as possible about everybody.

The LEAs do know, that they do not have a chance against organized crime
with this procedure. Organized crime does found and operate LIRs as well as
registrars themself. So when dealing with such counterparts you are lost
anyway.

To summarize the point: I do understand the pressure RIPE NCC has to deal
with.

But they (and we all) have to fight those interests. There is not benefit in
trading privacy for sercurity.