[bestbits] Reform surveillance

[Mike Godwin (mgodwin@INTERNEWS.ORG)]

I like the idea of “digital bills of rights,” as many people on this list know, but I am less enamored of analogizing everything we find offensive to “theft,” which, legally speaking, is an insufficiently elastic legal concept to support the analogy.  (Like many of us here, I'm quite troubled, for example, when copyright infringement is labelled “theft” by copyright holders.)

—Mike

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From: Anja Kovacs <anja at internetdemocracy.in<mailto:anja at internetdemocracy.in>>
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 11:38 AM
To: Gene Kimmelman <genekimmelman at gmail.com<mailto:genekimmelman at gmail.com>>
Cc: Mike Godwin <mgodwin at internews.org<mailto:mgodwin at internews.org>>, "mishi at softwarefreedom.org<mailto:mishi at softwarefreedom.org>" <mishi at softwarefreedom.org<mailto:mishi at softwarefreedom.org>>, "bestbits at lists.bestbits.net<mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>" <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net<mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>>
Subject: Re: [bestbits] Reform surveillance

This might also be of interest in the framework of this discussion, as another initiative to push for reforms:

World's leading authors say state surveillance of personal data is theft, and demand a digital bill of rights, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/surveillance-theft-worlds-leading-authors?CMP=twt_gu

Best,
Anja



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