Russian whois will become anonymous by 2010

In January 2007, the Federal Law of the Russian Federation “On Personal Data” came into force, which for the first time for Russian legislation introduces the right of a citizen to “be excluded at any time from publicly available sources of personal data upon request ... or by a court or other authorized state bodies” (article 8, paragraph 2).

As you know, one of these “publicly accessible sources of personal data” is a database of site owners that is available through the whois service. It turns out that according to the new law, any Russian citizen can demand to exclude himself from this base?

Yesterday the first official comment of RU-CENTER on this topic was published. Answer: Yes, indeed, the domain owner has the right to exclude his personal data from the whois-service.

The first official comment on the new law was given by the Director of Public Relations of RU-CENTER Andrey Vorobyov in an interview with TelNews :

The processing of personal data of domain owners is carried out in order to fulfill the contract, one of the parties to which is the subject of personal data - the owner of the domain name. The domain owner, under the new law, has the right to exclude his personal data from the whois-service, which belongs to a publicly available source of personal data. Currently, the Coordination Center of the RU domain and accredited registrars are working to resolve the issue of how to technically provide users with the opportunity to choose in the administrator interface - to place or not to place their personal data in the open database of WhoIs of the RU domain.

By law, personal data information systems should be brought into compliance with the new requirements no later than January 1, 2010.
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via TelNews