[bestbits] FW: [IP] DNI releases Fact Sheet on PRISM, but the damage is already done

[Katitza Rodriguez]

We are working on a few international action focuses on protection of 
the privacy rights of foreigners, hopefully coming soon!

On 6/8/13 10:59 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 09/06/2013, at 4:29 AM, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> What comes through loud and clear on this and the associated comments,
>> denials and disclaimers from all and sundry is that this is a global 
>> issue
>> requiring a global response and particularly initiatives from a 
>> global civil
>> society.
>
> Do you think that this is something that we should attempt through 
> Best Bits?  As you quite rightly pointed in response to the joint 
> letter posted to the webwewant list (and as I had also said in an 
> earlier reply), the joint letter from EFF, Free Press and ACLU is not 
> something that international organisations could support, yet 
> international Internet users are are even more affected by the PRISM 
> scandal than US Internet users are.
>
> In favour of such a response, one of the purposes of Best Bits was to 
> enable a broader perspective to attend the publication of statements 
> on human rights and the Internet, rather than a small cadre of 
> Internet freedom groups drafting and then pushing them out to the rest 
> of the world.  Against, is the concern is that "yet another statement" 
> isn't going to have much cumulative effect at this point, because 
> everybody and their dog has something to say about PRISM right now.
>
> If we do want to contribute something, then maybe our special 
> competence is in our knowledge of relevant international processes. 
>  So we could perhaps write our statement as a letter to the United 
> Nations Human Rights Council (particularly in the light of Frank La 
> Rue's latest report, 
> http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf). 
>  Or are there other international processes that people think would be 
> an appropriate target for such an intervention?
>
> Agreed that this is very important, but I just want to make sure we 
> don't issue a statement into the ether that will have zero impact.
>
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Katitza Rodriguez
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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