{"629546":{"#nid":"629546","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sale of .org Domain to Private Equity Firm Sparks Battle over Internet Privacy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy\u0026nbsp;Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/milton-l-mueller\u0022\u003EMilton Mueller\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was recently quoted in the article\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Sale of .org Domain to Private Equity Firm Sparks Battle over Internet Privacy,\u0026quot; which was published by \u003Cem\u003EFinancial Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;on November 28.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe future of one of the internet\u0026rsquo;s most irreproachable neighbourhoods has just been thrown into doubt \u0026mdash; and some of its residents are up in arms. The .org internet domain is a potent symbol for non-profit groups around the world, conveying such a strong sense of rectitude that some organisations have even included it in their offline names. So it was a shock to many users when the Internet Society, the US non-profit that owns .org, agreed earlier this month to sell the domain registry for an undisclosed sum to a newly established private equity firm called Ethos Capital.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/08066a5a-11b2-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-12-02 18:27:57","changed_gmt":"2019-12-02 18:27:57","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"infrasound waves","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/08066a5a-11b2-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"627390":{"id":"627390","type":"image","title":"Milton Mueller updated headshot","body":null,"created":"1570638312","gmt_created":"2019-10-09 16:25:12","changed":"1610724967","gmt_changed":"2021-01-15 15:36:07","alt":"A portrait photo of Milton Mueller","file":{"fid":"238874","name":"550336-Milton-Mueller-Headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/550336-Milton-Mueller-Headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/550336-Milton-Mueller-Headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":121784,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/550336-Milton-Mueller-Headshot.jpg?itok=K7xm_CUh"}}},"media_ids":["627390"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169170","name":"Milton Mueller"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}