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

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Copying The Steering Committee in case there is anything else we can do


Em sex, 16 de mar de 2018 às 18:15, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org>
escreveu:

> 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
> <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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