{"id":509,"date":"2006-06-29T23:06:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=509"},"modified":"2006-06-29T23:06:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T16:06:01","slug":"whois-data-a-key-weapon-in-fraud-fight-ftc-says-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/whois-data-a-key-weapon-in-fraud-fight-ftc-says-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Whois data a key weapon in fraud fight, FTC says &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Whois+data+a+key+weapon+in+fraud+fight%2C+FTC+says\/2100-7348_3-6088651.html?tag=alert\">Whois data a key weapon in fraud fight, FTC says | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission has made a pitch for open access to Whois, saying the databases are a key weapon in its fight against spyware and other Internet fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The agency on Tuesday called access to the Whois databases, which contain contact information for Web site operators, &#8220;critical to the agency&#8217;s consumer protection laws.&#8221; It was responding to a recommendation from a Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers committee to restrict use of the data to strictly &#8220;technical purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The official statement comes after an address by FTC Commissioner John Leibowitz to a meeting of ICANN this week in Morocco, where he gave examples of how Whois data has aided the agency&#8217;s attorneys and investigators in identifying perpetrators of Internet scams, spam and other illegal online activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whois databases often are one of the first tools FTC investigators use to identify wrongdoers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whois data a key weapon in fraud fight, FTC says | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The Federal Trade Commission has made a pitch for open access to Whois, saying the databases are a key weapon in its fight against spyware and other Internet fraud. The agency on Tuesday called access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,35,29,30,26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-industry","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam","category-spyware","category-viruses","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}