>"Commercial activity" casts a wide net, which means a vast number of domain holders will be affected. Your privacy provider could be forced to publish your contact data in WHOIS or give it out to anyone who complains about your website, without due process. Why should a small business owner have to publicize her home address just to have a website?
>We think your privacy should be protected, regardless of whether your website is personal or commercial, and your confidential info should not be revealed without due process.
I can't say that it "glosses over what counts as a business" or the requirement to disclose customer identities.
Sure, their bottom line is at stake, but it didn't feel to me that that's all this is about.
> Under new guidelines proposed by MarkMonitor and other organizations who represent the same industries that backed SOPA, domain holders with sites associated to "commercial activity" will no longer be able to protect their private information with WHOIS protection services.
Maybe it's just me, but this gives the impression that the remainder of the paragraph only applies to sites associated with commercial activity. This impression is reinforced by the last sentence, which again focuses only on commercial activity.
The email does mention "without due process", but that's pretty vague. The landing page of their petition site is slightly more informative, as it says:
> Let ICANN know that you object to any release of personal information without a court order.
But even this is misleading. The issue is NOT that ICANN will release your information without a court order. The issue is that ICANN wants to force third parties to have weak privacy policies. Now that sounds ridiculous, which it should, because it is indeed a ridiculous demand.
>"Commercial activity" casts a wide net, which means a vast number of domain holders will be affected. Your privacy provider could be forced to publish your contact data in WHOIS or give it out to anyone who complains about your website, without due process. Why should a small business owner have to publicize her home address just to have a website?
>We think your privacy should be protected, regardless of whether your website is personal or commercial, and your confidential info should not be revealed without due process.
I can't say that it "glosses over what counts as a business" or the requirement to disclose customer identities.
Sure, their bottom line is at stake, but it didn't feel to me that that's all this is about.