Posted on 03/31/2005 2:41:50 PM PST by infocats
There has been a decision made by bureaucrats of a Federal agency that takes away your right to privacy as guaranteed by the United States Constitution
This decision was unilaterally made by the National Telecommunications and Information Association (“NTIA”) www.ntia.doc.gov without hearings that would determine the impact on those affected, and delivered without notice — in short, the NTIA decision was made without due process of any kind. This is exactly how our government is not supposed to work.
The effect of this decision is to disallow new private domain name registrations on .US domain names. In addition, if you already own a private .US domain name registration, you will be forced to forfeit your privacy no later than January 26, 2006. By that time, you will need to choose between either making your personal information available to anyone who wants to see it, or giving up your right to that domain name.
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Somebody will probably sue this agency if what they did was unathorized. Don't know what the outcome would be, between judicial activism and unelected bureaucrats it's hard to say who's worse.
Actually, the constitutional "right to privacy" was discovered emanating from a penumbra in the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut back in the mid 60s.
Mr. Parsons has a good point.
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