<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear At-Large Community Members,<br><br></div>Please find attached ApTI's comment regarding ICANN's WHOIS privacy/proxy services proposal. <br><br></div>We believe the new policy <span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">presents a serious danger to freedom of speech, privacy and to the rule of law on the Internet and we urge ICANN not to adopt this proposal.<br><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We are also working on publishing a summary of our comment.<br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The public comment period is open until </span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000"><a href="http://http://www.timeanddate.com/time/aboututc.html" target="_blank">7 Jul 2015 23:59 UTC.</a></span></strong></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Thank you,<br></span></div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Valentina Pavel<br>Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet - ApTI</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span></span><br><a href="http://www.privacy.apti.ro" target="_blank">privacy.apti.ro</a> & <a href="http://apti.ro" target="_blank">apti.ro</a></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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