[bestbits] Delivery of International civil society letter to Congress to follow up from HRC statement
parminder
parminder at itforchange.net
Thu Jun 13 10:08:12 EDT 2013
The statement has turned out well. However, I remain concerned about the
fact that the issue of non citizens related content surveillance has not
at all been addressed by the US authorities. They havent bothered to say
a word on it (not that it is easily defensible). I would like the group
to consider adding the following paragraph somewhere......
"We are extremely disappointed that, in all the post 'disclosures'
statements, US authorities have only insisted that there was no
access obtained to content related to /US citizens/, and just their
communication meta-data was collected. There has not been a word on
the issue of large-scale access to content related to non US
citizens, which is a violation of their human rights. The focussing
of the US authorities on the difference between treatment of US
citizens and non-citizens on an issue which essentially relates to
violation of human rights is very problematic. Human rights are
universal, and every government must refrain from violating them for
all people, and not merely for its citizens. The current and future
US law and practices on this matter should take note of this. "
I stillhaveissues with the role of the involved companies, which I will
address in a separate email. I am fine though to address them
separately, through a possible second statement.
Meanwhile the second sentence in the following somehow looks not quite
right.
"The introduction ofuntargetedsurveillance mechanisms at the heart
of global digital communications severely threatens human rights in
the digital age. /*These new forms of decentralized power reflect
fundamental shifts in the structure of information systems in modern
societies*//*.*/[3] and aAny step in this direction needs to be
scrutinized throughample, deep and transparent debate. Interference
with the human rights of citizens by any government, their own or
foreign, is unacceptable."
What is being referred to as a 'form of decentralised power'? From the
reference I take it, it is about 'arab spring' kind of people's power,
but that doesnt look clear from the way the sentence is wedged between
the other two sentences...
parminder
On Thursday 13 June 2013 05:11 PM, Anja Kovacs wrote:
> Also, in response to Parminder's questions: while we had agreed from
> the beginning that the focus of this particular statement would be the
> US Congress, I feel (and I just reread it to check) that it does
> foreground the concerns of non-US citizens/resident (as it was meant
> to do in my reading as well). Parminder, do you really feel that
> doesn't come out at all? In that case, we do have some more work to do....
>
>
> On 13 June 2013 16:28, Anja Kovacs <anja at internetdemocracy.in
> <mailto:anja at internetdemocracy.in>> wrote:
>
> Anriette, is there a strong reason why you feel we should release
> this tomorrow already? My inclination would be to agree with
> Nnenna and others and to wait until Monday, but would be keen to
> know why you feel tomorrow is a better idea.
>
>
>
> On 13 June 2013 14:37, Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna75 at gmail.com
> <mailto:nnenna75 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi people
>
> I will say submit on Monday. When you kick off the week with
> it, you will have ample time to rave up media attention on it..
> I am hoping Mandela does not give up the fight.. because that
> will overshadow any other Internet news...
>
> I am booked for the very first Africa Internet Summit in
> Lusaka next week. I do hope to be able to draw attention to
> the statement, as well as some that have been made by Best Bits.
>
> Best of the day..
>
> Nnenna
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen
> <anriette at apc.org <mailto:anriette at apc.org>> wrote:
>
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> Greetings everyone
>
> Content is coming along well.
>
> Jeremy, in response to your question, what about giving
> people until
> 21h00 GMT/UTC today, Thursday. Then you can close the
> text, finalise it,
> and release for sign-ons and give people until 16h00
> GMT/UTC Friday for
> sign ons and then we can send it off before the end of the
> business day
> in Washington DC (will be 12h00 in DC).
>
> That will accommodate Parminder's request, but still
> enable us to get
> enough sign ons and get the letter to Washington DC on
> Friday. Only
> region that will have a shortish period for sign ons will
> be the Americas.
>
> Will this work?
>
> Anriette
>
>
> On 13/06/2013 08:13, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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> anriette esterhuysen anriette at apc.org
> <mailto:anriette at apc.org>
> executive director, association for progressive communications
> www.apc.org <http://www.apc.org>
> po box 29755, melville 2109
> south africa
> tel/fax +27 11 726 1692 <tel:%2B27%2011%20726%201692>
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> Dr. Anja Kovacs
> The Internet Democracy Project
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> www.internetdemocracy.in <http://www.internetdemocracy.in/>
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> Dr. Anja Kovacs
> The Internet Democracy Project
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> +91 9899028053 | @anjakovacs
> www.internetdemocracy.in <http://www.internetdemocracy.in/>
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