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At the close of 2017, Schneider Electric began a new phase of its energy transition by joining RE100 and committing to source 100% of electricity from renewables by 2030. Our intermediary target is to reach 80% of renewable electricity supply by 2020, up from 2% in 2017. This is proof that companies can be ambitious and aggressive in leading the way in the energy transition. Shaping the future We see many benefits from this commitment. First and foremost, going green is deeply aligned with our strategy. The buildings, data centers, industry and infrastructure markets are responsible for 70% of the world’s energy consumption, and show immediate potential for energy efficiency (82% in buildings and 79% in infrastructure) and for renewables. We want to be a corporate actor shaping the future energy landscape, our own sites acting as “Prosumers” in the electricity grid. At Schneider, we believe that this type of innovation is technologically possible today. Second, renewable sourcing i...

Privacy as an Afterthought: ICANN’s Response to the GDPR Almost three years ago, the global domain name authority  ICANN  chartered a working group to consider how to build a replacement for the WHOIS database, a publicly-accessible record of registered domain names. Because it includes the personal information of millions of domain name registrants with no built-in protections for their privacy, the legacy WHOIS system exposes registrants to the risk that their information will be misused by spammers, identity thieves, doxxers, and censors. But at the same time, the public availability of the information contained in the WHOIS database has become taken for granted, not only by its regular users, but by a secondary industry that repackages and sells access to its data, providing services like bulk searches and reverse lookups for clients as diverse as marketers, anti-abuse experts, trademark attorneys, and law enforcement authorities. T...