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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>With the commercial sector weighing in in a useful way, is it just me or is there not deafening silence from the "technical community" either through their "official" representative organization(s) or even unofficially through contributions from elders and notables?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mike <o:p></o:p></span></p><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 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Riaz K Tayob<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] Fwd: CCIA Calls for Disclosure of Government Surveillance, Praises Bill To Declassify Some FISA Court Rulings<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Nick<br><br>While I have some issues, from the perspective of an industry association, this is a fabulous enlightened self-interest statement. This seems even better than what some civil society reps have put out - which is just remarkable. <br><br>Thanks for sharing it as I suspect that non-US companies will be cashing in getting out of the US orbit of technology dependence, especially now that this it is so well known. It remains to be seen however how some companies handle their complicity in obeying the law but violating the constitution in 'sharing' access given the sophistry that that says there is access but not direct access. Also, Snowden is on record as saying that it is just not metadata of Americans that was collected, or capable of being collected. <br><br>Riaz<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 2013/06/12 09:12 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Dear subscribers, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As you know, I'm Geneva Representative of CCIA in my day job - this press release from us would, I thought, be of interest to many of you.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>June 11, 2013</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CCIA Calls for Disclosure of Government Surveillance, Praises Bill To Declassify Some FISA Court Rulings</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Washington – Recent reports regarding NSA access to phone call metadata and online communications and data have highlighted the continued importance of government transparency. The Computer & Communications Industry Association commends the specific requests of both senators and companies today that would help.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CCIA shares the grave concerns expressed about the allegations in these disclosures. The Association supports recently proposed legislation to declassify the legal decisions providing the basis for government surveillance, and joins industry in calling for transparency in the frequency which the government seeks data from U.S. business.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Without knowledge about how the law is being interpreted and used, proper debate about practices is impossible. A group of Senators have realized this fact, and </span><a href="http://www.merkley.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=5D5997D9-4BA1-46C3-BA86-D208EC82A31E"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>introduced a bill</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> today that would require the Department of Justice to declassify a large number of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions. CCIA supports this effort, led by Senators Merkley and Lee and joined by 6 other Senators.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CCIA has advocated against these sections of FISA for years and testified before the Senate in 2007 that we had concerns about accountability and transparency.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The following can be attributed to CCIA President & CEO Ed Black:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“To make appropriate decisions about security in a free society, the public should be informed about the legal principles governing surveillance in America. Transparency is essential; secret law is antithetical to democracy.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“A top concern to consider is whether a secret executive branch program using secret courts with oversight by lawmakers briefed secretly can provide the adequate checks and balances intended by our founders. What is missing is accountability and public scrutiny as part of the checks and balances. That can only come with more transparency about what our nation is doing so we can discuss as a nation whether it’s worth it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“We join industry in calling on the US government to enable companies to report aggregate national security data requests it receives from the government. Google issued such a request today in a letter to the attorney general and FBI director and Facebook issued a similar request. In addition to important transparency goals, there are serious First Amendment issues with such gag orders.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“As the industry that provides Internet services and communications tools, we disagree with the notion that the scope of government surveillance or how frequently these tools are used should be classified.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“In this effort to gather security data, the broader picture of the damage to the Internet was lost. Somehow the Internet as a global tool, a trade tool and a trusted communication tool for people around the world was not adequately weighed into the cost benefit analysis.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“There are broad costs to our nation’s diplomatic, economic and trade goals if the millions of people around the world using Internet services to communicate are worried about how their information and data is being used by the US government.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About CCIA:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CCIA is a 40 year-old international, nonprofit association of computer and communications and Internet industry firms, representing a broad cross section of the industry. CCIA is dedicated to preserving full, fair and open competition throughout our industry. Our members employ more than 600,000 workers and generate annual revenues in excess of $200 billion.</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>