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Karen Sandler (o0karen0o@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2019 22:05:21 UTC Karen Sandler

This could have profound privacy implications, especially for people who are poor or otherwise vulnerable. I'm proud to be part of this work.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/19/uspto-personal-addresses/
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1. Conservancy Asks Trademark Office to Protect Applicant's Personal Privacy
  
  from Software Freedom Conservancy
  
  Software Freedom Conservancy today submitted a petition to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) asking that Office to reconsider recent rulemaking that exposes trademark owners' personal addresses. This rulemaking has a direct impact on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects and charities (like Conservancy) that work to advance software freedom. FOSS is developed virtually, with limited budgets, and rarely does a FOSS project have office space. FOSS projects that register trademarks should not be required to disclose the personal, residential, home address of the project leaders. Furthermore, software freedom organizations are more likely to be full-telecommute organizations, in which case, the new USPTO rule requires disclosure of officers and/or directors home addresses.
- Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.

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