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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>[for those coming to EuroDIG in Lisbon next week]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Dear all, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>in light of current events (PRISM and the La Rue report), I'm organizing a last minute Flash at the EURODIG on Human Rights and Internet Surveillance. Since EuroDIG is upon us, I would appreciate your support regarding both speaking commitments and possible speakers. Do you feel like you have something to say on the future of surveillance and its impact on human rights on the Internet? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Please get in touch asap.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Below and attached you can find enclosed the description of the flash. If you would like to add your thoughts, please write to me. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Matthias<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>FRIDAY, 21 JUNE 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>08:00 Flash 7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Human Rights and Internet Surveillance: Standards, Principles and Lines of Action</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Focal Point:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><a href="mailto:matthias.kettemann@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1155CC'>Matthias C. Kettemann</span></b></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Surveillance has never been easier: a sharp increase in stored data, better surveillance and data mining tools, and security-oriented political priorities together threaten privacy, freedom of expression and democratic participation worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>In<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>Resolution 20/8 (2012)</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>, the Human Rights Council affirmed that “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of expression”. As UN Special Rapporteur La Rue wrote in his<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>2013 report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>, Internet surveillance may not only violate privacy but has serious chilling effects on a range of other human rights. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>The Flash will look at key questions brought forth both by La Rue’s report, reflecting worldwide trends, and by the PRISM revelations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>1)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>What are the limits to Internet surveillance?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>2)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>What is worse: If the surveillance systems in place are illegal or if they are, in fact, legal under current national legislation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>3)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>What role and responsibilities do the different actors – states, companies – in Internet surveillance have? What can civil society do? What about existing standards, such as the IRP Charter on Internet Rights and Principles?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>4)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>What lines of action exist: Should the Human Rights Council convene a special session? What role can the High Commissioner for Human Rights play? Which organizations should be activated?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Chair: Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann (University of Graz, Austria; IRP Coalition)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Speakers: tbc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>--<br>Dr Matthias C. Kettemann, LLM (Harvard)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Institute of International Law and International Relations<br>University of Graz<br>Universitätsstraße 15/A4, 8010 Graz, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>T |<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="tel:%2B43%20316%20380%206711" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>+43 316 380 6711</span></a><br>M |<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="tel:%2B43%20676%20701%207175" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>+43 676 701 7175</span></a><br>E | <a href="mailto:matthias.kettemann@uni-graz.at" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>matthias.kettemann@uni-graz.at</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="http://internationallawandtheinternet.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Blog</span></a> | <a href="http://ssrn.com/author=1957909" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>SSRN</span></a> | <a href="http://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=8jRGt2QAAAAJ" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Google Scholar</span></a> | </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><a href="http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B00DBT3K36" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Amazon Authors' Page </span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><br><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/MCKettemann" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Twitter</span></a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/matthias.kettemann" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Facebook</span></a> | <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116310540881122884114/posts" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Google+</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Recent publications:<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><a href="http://www.elevenpub.com/law/catalogus/the-future-of-individuals-in-international-law" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1155CC'>The Future of Individuals in International Law (2013)</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>, <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><a href="http://www.jan-sramek-verlag.at/Buchdetails.455.0.html?buchID=139&cHash=e856a8a762" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1155CC'>Grenzen im Völkerrecht (2013, ed.)</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>