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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">We are working on a few international
action focuses on protection of the privacy rights of foreigners,
hopefully coming soon! <br>
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On 6/8/13 10:59 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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<div>On 09/06/2013, at 4:29 AM, "michael gurstein" <<a
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<blockquote type="cite">What comes through loud and clear on
this and the associated comments,<br>
denials and disclaimers from all and sundry is that this is a
global issue<br>
requiring a global response and particularly initiatives from
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<div>Do you think that this is something that we should attempt
through Best Bits? As you quite rightly pointed in response
to the joint letter posted to the webwewant list (and as I had
also said in an earlier reply), the joint letter from EFF,
Free Press and ACLU is not something that international
organisations could support, yet international Internet users
are are even more affected by the PRISM scandal than US
Internet users are.</div>
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<div>In favour of such a response, one of the purposes of Best
Bits was to enable a broader perspective to attend the
publication of statements on human rights and the Internet,
rather than a small cadre of Internet freedom groups drafting
and then pushing them out to the rest of the world. Against,
is the concern is that "yet another statement" isn't going to
have much cumulative effect at this point, because everybody
and their dog has something to say about PRISM right now.</div>
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<div>If we do want to contribute something, then maybe our
special competence is in our knowledge of relevant
international processes. So we could perhaps write our
statement as a letter to the United Nations Human Rights
Council (particularly in the light of Frank La Rue's latest
report, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf">http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf</a>).
Or are there other international processes that people think
would be an appropriate target for such an intervention?</div>
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<div>Agreed that this is very important, but I just want to make
sure we don't issue a statement into the ether that will have
zero impact.</div>
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