The group that oversees Canada’s dot-ca registry introduced a new privacy policy this week in an attempt to balance the rights of domain name registrants with those of trademark holders.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said that under the new policy, formally enacted on Tuesday, the personal information of individual domain name registrants, including registrant name, home address, phone number and e-mail address, would now automatically be protected. Corporate registrants will remain public.
Individuals, as opposed to businesses, own about 60 per cent of all of the dot-ca domain names in Canada. The personal information of these owners was previously available through an internet search called Whois (pronounced who-is).
The new privacy rules restricts how private-sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial business; this would put it in line with the 2004 Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
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