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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi everyone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As we are referring to specific US legislation - </span><span class=author-a-z70zz77zz71zwz66zz71zz75zmz75zfyl8z65znb><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, </span></span><span class=author-a-9ulz122z0wue2z75zz87zz76zz90zz79z5z76z><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>the S</span></span><span class=author-a-z70zz77zz71zwz66zz71zz75zmz75zfyl8z65znb><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>tate </span></span><span class=author-a-9ulz122z0wue2z75zz87zz76zz90zz79z5z76z><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>S</span></span><span class=author-a-z70zz77zz71zwz66zz71zz75zmz75zfyl8z65znb><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>ecrets </span></span><span class=author-a-9ulz122z0wue2z75zz87zz76zz90zz79z5z76z><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>P</span></span><span class=author-a-z70zz77zz71zwz66zz71zz75zmz75zfyl8z65znb><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>rivilege, and the FISA Amendments Act I’d like to understand the legislation. From what I can read FISA talks about establishing a court “</span></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal'>which shall have jurisdiction to hear applications for and grant orders approving electronic surveillance anywhere within the United States” and Section 215 then expands the scope of records searches dealt with by the court. This is obviously a concern to US citizens but a letter from international organisations should pick up on the issue of non US citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal'>Can someone direct me to any relevant legislation that refers to non US citizens, if there is such legislation? Can our US friends tell us which bit of legislation, if any, allows the surveillance of non US citizens? I want to be clear whether this is happening outside of the law (an executive branch responsibility) or within the law (the legislative branch)</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Andrew Puddephatt</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> Executive Director<br></span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#FF2126;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>GLOBAL PARTNERS</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#FF2126;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> DIGITAL <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>Direct: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>+44 (0)20 7549 0336<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>Office: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>+44 (0)20 7549 0350<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>Mobile: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>+44 (0)7713 399 597<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>Skype: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>andrewpuddephatt</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Address:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> Development House, 56–64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:5.0pt;line-height:120%;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#FF2126;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>gp-digital.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> webwewant@googlegroups.com [mailto:webwewant@googlegroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Malcolm<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 June 2013 05:02<br><b>To:</b> bestbits@lists.bestbits.net<br><b>Cc:</b> webwewant@googlegroups.com; irp@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org<br><b>Subject:</b> International civil society letter to Congress to follow up from HRC statement<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>This follows on from a telephone call organised by the Web Foundation yesterday, in which APC was asked to coordinate a civil society letter to the US government from international organisations. That letter would follow on from our joint statement to the Human Rights Council, and we would invite Human Rights Watch and Privacy International to participate in drafting. APC agreed to do this and suggested continuing to use Best Bits as the coordinating coalition.<br><br>Here is the first rough draft of the text that Joy from APC and I have begun to put together, which awaits your comments and improvements:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><a href="http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/your_name_here">http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/your_name_here</a> (sorry for the dumb URL)<br><br>Although I'm cc'ing the IRP and Web We Want lists, to avoid fragmentation of discussions on the text like happened inadvertently last time, can I suggest, if nobody objects, that we centralise on this list, and that if you are not a member you can join at <a href="http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits">http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits</a>. To bring in others, you can point them towards this list too.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Dr Jeremy Malcolm<br>Senior Policy Officer<br>Consumers International | the global campaigning voice for consumers</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><br>Office for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East<br>Lot 5-1 Wisma WIM, 7 Jalan Abang Haji Openg, TTDI, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br>Tel: +60 3 7726 1599<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Explore our new Resource Zone - the global consumer movement knowledge hub | <a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org/news-and-media/resource-zone">http://www.consumersinternational.org/news-and-media/resource-zone</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>@Consumers_Int | <a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org">www.consumersinternational.org</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/consumersinternational">www.facebook.com/consumersinternational</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#999999'>Read our <a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org/email-confidentiality" target="_blank">email confidentiality notice</a>. 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