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Thanks for this, the agenda does seem packed! I wanted to draw to
your attention, an important proceeding that is taking place at
ICANN, and is an important Internet governance issue. A working
group on the accreditation of privacy proxy services, which many
endangered groups and political/social dissidents use to protect
their identities from disclosure on WHOIS, has been meeting for a
year and a half. The report is up for comments until July 7. The
civil society groups who have been actively trying to protect these
services from any requirements that would price them out of
existence, or make many organizations ineligible to use them, would
appreciate the support of human rights groups everywhere. There are
two easy ways to do this:<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Briefing Paper<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first is a briefing paper prepared by 3
members of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group, to give an
overview of some of the issues and concerns that we feel are still
present and need some further work. You can find our briefing
attached and we welcome and feedback, suggestions or comments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Savedomainprivacy.org<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A website has also been setup by a number of
other stakeholders in this process at
<a href="http://www.savedomainprivacy.org">www.savedomainprivacy.org</a>.
Members of the public and interested parties can sign onto a
petition to protect the ability of registrants to keep their
personal information private.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would urge everyone to have a look at both
pieces of info and please feel free to contact me or any of the
other authors if you or your organization want further information
or to help you submit your own comments during the Public Comments
period which will be ending on July 7<sup>th</sup> 2015.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-06-16 6:04, Deborah Brown
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
The 29th session of the Human Rights Council opened yesterday, and APC
and Access have put together a brief on the internet rights issues that
will come up. It's a busy session with the presentation of the report of
the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression on encryption and
anonymity, the appointment of the new SR on privacy, and more.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.apc.org/en/news/human-rights-council-hrc29-what-stake-internet-rig">https://www.apc.org/en/news/human-rights-council-hrc29-what-stake-internet-rig</a>
If anyone is in Geneva and able to come to the HRC, there a few events
of interest (in the brief).
Kind regards,
Deborah
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