US, Tech Firms Warn Against ICANN’s Privacy Tightening
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the global body that oversees internet domain names, is preparing a significant tightening of its privacy standards in response to new European Union policies. The US government and some major American tech businesses warn the move, which is expected to be adopted within the next couple of months, will threaten their ability to track down bad actors on the internet. Investigators have long used the online tracking information to determine where malevolent activity on the internet originates.
