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The Internet Society Announces New Appointments to the Public Interest Registry Board of Directors
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24 May, 2021 â The Internet Society today announced the appointment of Saerin Cho to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) Board of Directors and the re-appointment of Jeffrey Bedser and Narelle Clark. In addition, Eric Burger is returning to the PIR Board. These board members will take their seats beginning in July 1, 2021. Jeffrey Bedser and Eric Burger will serve three-year terms, and Saerin Cho and Narelle Clark will serve two-year terms.
Saerin Cho is Chief Counsel of Global Eligibility and an Associate General Counsel at TechSoup, a US-based global technology nonprofit that connects NGOs with critical resources worldwide. Eric Burger is Research Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He was reappointed to the PIR Board of Directors after spending the past four years working in government service.
European Union countries on Wednesday agreed to take a joint position in forthcoming negotiations with EU lawmakers and the European Commission on planned privacy rules governing Facebook’s WhatsApp and Microsoft’s Skype, ending a three-year impasse.
The European Commission proposed its ePrivacy Regulation in 2017, which would subject WhatsApp and Skype to the same rules as telecoms providers and restrict the tracking of users in order to provide personalised ads.
The proposal, which aims to create a level playing field between internet players and telecoms providers, needs input from the European Parliament and EU countries before it can be adopted as law for the 27-country bloc.