<div dir="ltr">Thanks for flagging this indeed. <div><br></div><div>I'll be very interested to hear these discussions on data protection and privacy.</div><div><br></div><div>Karel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 June 2017 at 18:10, Mueller, Milton L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" target="_blank">milton@gatech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you are not outraged already, this blog post my make you so:
<a href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/2017/06/22/how-icann-is-manipulating-its-gdpr-discussions/" target="_blank">
http://www.internetgovernance.<wbr>org/2017/06/22/how-icann-is-<wbr>manipulating-its-gdpr-<wbr>discussions/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Dr. Milton L Mueller<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="http://spp.gatech.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">School of Public Policy</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 22, 2017 4:35 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [NCUC-DISCUSS] Important note on Privacy at ICANN<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">As this blog post shows </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/dialogues-on-the-evolving-data-privacy-and-protection-regulations" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">https://www.icann.org/news/<wbr>blog/dialogues-on-the-<wbr>evolving-data-privacy-and-<wbr>protection-regulations</span></a><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> ICANN
is now thinking about how to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation ahead of the time. Which is good news because they might, after all, do something about privacy. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">" At the direction of ICANN president and CEO Göran Marby, we formed an internal GDPR Task Force comprised of senior leaders and subject matter experts to focus on this important matter. This
team is focused on parallel tracks: <u>contracted parties and engagement, and the ICANN organization</u>. In relation to the latter, an internal review of our operations is currently underway."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Also the blog invites the Johannesburg attendees and remote participants to the cross community session on GDPR. I was involved with organizing that session and I argued repeatedly to have
a registrant representative on that panel (Stephanie) to no avail. At least I managed to insert "registrants" in the description and the group supported that addition. So I criticized the way it was arranged. But I do encourage you to attend it: </span><a href="https://schedule.icann.org/event/B3ot/gdpr-and-its-potential-impact-looking-for-practical-solutions" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">https://schedule.icann.<wbr>org/event/B3ot/gdpr-and-its-<wbr>potential-impact-looking-for-<wbr>practical-solutions</span></a><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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