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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I am taking a look at this case.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dr. Milton L Mueller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> NCSG-Discuss <NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Drolet<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 19, 2020 2:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> What's up w. FB and suit vs Namecheap etc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I may have missed this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#6D6F70">Important Privacy News<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">Dear Brian,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">Protecting your online privacy rights is something we've long believed in and fought for. Even if it means taking on one of the biggest names in technology and media, we will always do everything
 we can to safeguard your personal information and freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">That's why I’m writing to you now, as Facebook attempts to gain the right to your personal data perpetually, simply because they ask for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">By lobbying ICANN (the organization that oversees registrars like us) as well as filing a case against us via US courts, we believe Facebook is not just attempting to sneak around the General Data
 Protection Regulation (GDPR), but that their actions could open the floodgates for anyone to demand your private data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">Naturally, it’s also important to us that you have all the key facts of this case at your disposal. So we’ve laid them down for you in our blog, to provide the <a href="https://links.namecheap.com/u/click?_t=9a766a4fa5294d089b01463bac20344b&_m=70a0ea0cb12344a79a46ed9969c07518&_e=2JoFfift422Hv76zQCDU7jVCotZrOYcrm1rLMCXzqnORuO4PHy7_MP845kIm-gtoRkJn4swIhouXsr-emEZrjJEgc28WDXQr9I7qBZYTphE4WnbVde2rZeXBdz1xeti9vifxgAjQexwvjL__V4ZzCV26NIuOZP-nWaNStuMVAp3cIN3OXHOfdomVe4JRo2Nn-_cqRksv0zzABrJdeRKnFh60GJS63gPdgs8d-ai1lHzkvUMJTzwGOuAK1kkFien46OAFQFyhEifO--0k3OiVgPd9cN6tDdAVuA-uVGNEcTzMuTA7mQsAv88YfzmJmM9QjVG26jqthaUW3T5bQQNsU14AFO6Si-OSqP4CeZqXvTsofwVa_REIKOEUYvjSNIbpHTlMWvrHXrwEoolqPM31SI2oC25LGzxr9AosL9ch60otl1xUBUCtLt1Qz98PLAKK">full
 story</a> and its serious implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">We wanted you to know exactly what this case could mean for you, and that we will be fighting it every way we can. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">Gratefully Yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">Richard Kirkendall <br>
CEO Namecheap<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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