[bestbits] ACTION: Sign-on Letter to Council of Europe: Re New Protocol Cybercrime Convention

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Brief update following up on Jeremy’s email:

The letter to the Council of Europe has been sent and published here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/nearly-100-public-interest-organizations-urge-council-europe-ensure-high
https://twitter.com/EFF/status/981175325676642304

If you have signed the letter, we would be grateful if you can publish a blogpost in your own site. A draft blogpost is attached here.
Feel free to customize it as you wish.

I have also uploaded a graphic you can use in your own site here if you wish to do so:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a89DpWEd-ZX1hV7OqoQZoGEvQO0b3p5B/view?usp=sharing

All the bet,

Katitza Rodriguez
International Rights Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation

katitza at eff.org

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> On Mar 16, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
> 
> The Council of Europe Secretary General is developing a Second Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime Convention, and I've been requested to circulate this letter to other civil society organizations who may be interested in endorsing a letter asking for meaningful civil society participation in this process. It is no longer open to new edits, sorry, and the deadline for signatures is 23 March.
> 
> You can find more information below and you can contact my colleague Katitza if you have questions.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> From: Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at eff.org>
>> Date: March 16, 2018 at 12:26:01 PM GMT-3
>> To: 13 Principles <principles at eff.org>
>> Cc: Maryant Fernandez Perez <maryant.fernandez-perez at edri.org>, Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at eff.org>
>> Subject: ACTION: Sign-on Letter to Council of Europe: Re New Protocol Cybercrime Convention
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have drafted a sign-on letter to the Council of Europe Secretary General asking for meaningful civil society participation in the development of the Cybercrime Convention’s Second Additional Protocol. The protocol is currently being discussed at the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY), a committee that represents the State Parties to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and other observer states.
>> 
>> Read the letter and sign on here:
>> https://fnf17.pad.foebud.org/2018coecxb-transparency
>> Deadline for sign-on is Friday March 23, end of the day PST.
>> 
>> For those who are not familiar with this process, the Council’s Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) has initiated a global process to draft a second additional protocol to the Convention—a new text which deals with cross-border access to data, including ways to improve MLATs according to their Terms of Reference[1]. The work on the Second Protocol to the Cybercrime Convention is ongoing, without sufficient transparency nor meaningful civil society participation.
>> 
>> Join us on the letter and read more about the second additional protocol to the cybercrime convention:
>> 
>> https://edri.org/crossborder-access-to-data-has-to-respect-human-rights-principles/
>> https://www.eff.org/es/deeplinks/2017/09/cybercrime-conventions-new-protocol-needs-uphold-human-rights
>> https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-rule-of-law/-/new-legal-tool-on-electronic-evidence-council-of-europe-welcomes-civil-society-opinion
>> 
>> Thanks and best,
>> 
>> Maryant and Katitza
>> 
>> [1] https://rm.coe.int/terms-of-reference-for-the-preparation-of-a-draft-2nd-additional-proto/168072362b
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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