The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is reporting that a policy being considered by ICANN, the global domain name authority, could make it easier for third parties to discover the contact information of website owners. The impetus for the potential policy change came from U.S. entertainment companies that want “tools to discover the identities of website owners whom they want to accuse of copyright and trademark infringement, preferably without a court order,” the EFF states. According to Threat Post, smaller websites appear to be the most affected. “The limited value of this change is manifestly outweighed by the risks to website owners who will suffer a higher risk of harassment, intimidation and identity theft,” the EFF notes.
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