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

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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 <mailto:katitza at eff.org>>
> *Date:* March 16, 2018 at 12:26:01 PM GMT-3
> *To:* 13 Principles <principles at eff.org <mailto:principles at eff.org>>
> *Cc:* Maryant Fernandez Perez <maryant.fernandez-perez at edri.org
> <mailto:maryant.fernandez-perez at edri.org>>, Katitza Rodriguez
> <katitza at eff.org <mailto: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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