Does the GDPR negatively affect enforcement efforts?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
has without a doubt a negative impact on the enforcement efforts, according to
the participants at the INTA 2019 annual meeting (International Trademark
Association) in Boston.

Margaret Lia Milam, domain name strategy and
management lead at Facebook warned that the platform’s scale makes it a “huge
target for bad actors”.

Milam stated that because the site is working
at such a scale, it cannot turn to lawyers for the “thousands” of requests it
receives.

Statton Hammock of MarkMonitor said that
MarkMonitor had suffered a loss of efficiency of 12% due to the GDPR. His team
has “historically used WHOIS to protect IP rights” but because of the GDPR, all
the data they have cached “become less and less useful with each passing day”.

Alex Deacon, founder of Cole Valley Consulting,
echoed Milam and Hammock’s comments warning that the Spamhaus Project, an
international organization aiming to track emails spammers, is struggling to
manage its blacklist because of the GDPR.

First published at nameshield blog