Russian whois will become anonymous by 2010

In January 2007, the federal law of the Russian Federation “On personal data” entered into force , which for the first time for Russian legislation introduces the right of a citizen “to be excluded from public sources of personal data at any time upon request ... or by decision of a court or other authorized state bodies” (article 8, paragraph 2).

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

Yesterday, the first official comment by 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 commentary on the new law was made by the public relations director 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 of which is the subject of personal data - the owner of the domain name. The owner of the domain, under the new law, has the right to exclude his personal data from the whois-service, which refers to a public source of personal data. Currently, the RU Domain Coordination Center and accredited registrars are working on a solution to the question of how to technically provide users with the opportunity to choose in the admin interface whether or not to place their personal data in the WhoIs domain database of the RU domain.

By law, personal data information systems must be brought into line with the new requirements no later than January 1, 2010.

via TelNews