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Personal Data “Use” Matrix Now Available for Public Review

25 July 2017
By Akram Atallah

Akram Atallah

Former President, Global Domains Division
and
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.

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This is our third in a series of blogs (read part one and part two) on the progress we have made related to data privacy and protection regulations, notably on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will take full effect on 25 May 2018.

In our last update, we noted that an ad hoc volunteer group was formed to help us create and populate a matrix of user stories of the personal data the ICANN organization's contracted parties collect, transmit, or publish in relation to our contracts with registries and registrars. The purpose for collecting this data is to inform a legal analysis on the potential impact of the GDPR from a contractual perspective, which is an activity that we expect to begin in September.

Thanks to the hard work of this group, along with the many other community members who contributed to this effort, we now have most of this information and have published the first draft of the matrix of user stories.

We are posting the matrix for a 30-day public review period. Given the importance of ensuring the data is as complete as possible, we encourage you to review the matrix and let us know if you are aware of something that should be included. We will be updating the matrix during the review period as more data becomes available.

Gathering this information was an extensive undertaking, particularly given the aggressive schedule the group set to complete this activity. We sincerely thank everyone for their hard work and contributions to this important effort.

Following the 30-day review period, we will consolidate the data into a condensed and more easily readable format. We expect to complete this activity by early September. Once the analysis is complete, we will use this data, when appropriate, in our discussions with data protection agencies and other relevant parties. Concurrently, we will move forward with the legal analysis.

We are moving quickly through this process and we will provide you with regular updates. You can also visit the data privacy/protection page on icann.org for information that includes our blogs, details of the matrix, community initiatives, useful links and more. If you have specific questions or have content to contribute to the matrix, please reach out to us directly or email globalsupport@icann.org with "GDPR Matrix" in the subject line.

In closing, we want to once again express our appreciation to all of you who contributed to this data-gathering effort.

Authors

Akram Atallah

Former President, Global Domains Division

Akram Atallah

Former President, Global Domains Division
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.

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