<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello all, <br>however I take the motion with a grain of salt. Since the exceptions of a rule are the part that confer a rule strength (or weakness) I see in the declaration far too many weaknesses: <br>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:20.04px;font-family:serif"><br>Emphasizing that unlawful or arbitrary surveillance and/or interception of communications, as well as unlawful or arbitrary collection of personal data, as highly intrusive acts, violate the rights to privacy and freedom of expression and </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:20.04px;font-family:serif">may contradict the tenets of a democratic society,<br><font>first diluting point: if there is no reform of the corresponding national security/intelligence laws (in all countries), espionage acts will still be legal, since those laws authorize the corresponding intelligence agency to break the laws of a foreign country (not of their own country) and the principles proposed in the motion have to be implemented by each nation state. Hence, any surveillance/intelligence operation performed by the own national intelligence agency on a foreign country will still be legal from the perspective of the spying nation state and not affected by this.<br>
</font><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:20.04px;font-family:serif">Noting that while concerns about public security may justify the gathering and protection of certain sensitive information,<br></div></div>second diluting point: gathering and protection of data due to "public security" issues are excluded: regulation on intelligence agencies falls under that category, so again, intelligence agencies are excluded.<br>
<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><font size="4">States must ensure full compliance with their obligations under international human rights law, <br></font>third diluting point: there is no current international treaty or agreement on the limits and obligations of intelligence agencies and since this text fails to do that, it remains so.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">In my opinion we need an international treaty that stablishes specifically (!) limits to the work of intelligence agencies if we really want to address this issue.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Regards,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Lorena<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/19 Ian Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span><br>
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<div>and also this - the UN motion</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/one-small-step-privacy-one-giant-leap-against-surveillance" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/one-small-step-privacy-one-giant-leap-against-surveillance</font></a></div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [bestbits] WHITE HOUSE review report of NSA is
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<div>Here's the full report, from the White House: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2013-12-12_rg_final_report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.<span>whitehouse</span>.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2013-12-12_<span>rg</span>_final_report.<span>pdf</span></a><br>
<br></div>Look
at IV.D regarding non-US persons. <br><br></div>Is this something Best Bits
should answer to?<br><br></div>Carol<br clear="all">
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