[governance] EuroDIG: Flash Session on Surveillance

Tue Jun 11 06:44:49 EDT 2013

[for those coming to EuroDIG in Lisbon next week]

Dear all,

in light of current events (PRISM and the La Rue report), I'm organizing a last minute Flash at the EURODIG on Human Rights and Internet Surveillance. Since EuroDIG is upon us, I would appreciate your support regarding both speaking commitments and possible speakers. Do you feel like you have something to say on the future of surveillance and its impact on human rights on the Internet?

Please get in touch asap.

Below and attached you can find enclosed the description of the flash. If you would like to add your thoughts, please write to me.

Kind regards

Matthias

FRIDAY, 21 JUNE 2013

08:00  Flash 7

Human Rights and Internet Surveillance: Standards, Principles and Lines of Action

Focal Point: Matthias C. Kettemann<mailto:matthias.kettemann at gmail.com>

Surveillance has never been easier: a sharp increase in stored data, better surveillance and data mining tools, and security-oriented political priorities together threaten privacy, freedom of expression and democratic participation worldwide.

In Resolution 20/8 (2012)<http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf>, the Human Rights Council affirmed that "the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of expression".  As UN Special Rapporteur La Rue wrote in his 2013 report<http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf>, Internet surveillance may not only violate privacy but has serious chilling effects on a range of other human rights.

The Flash will look at key questions brought forth both by La Rue's report, reflecting worldwide trends, and by the PRISM revelations.

1)    What are the limits to Internet surveillance?

2)    What is worse: If the surveillance systems in place are illegal or if they are, in fact, legal under current national legislation?

3)    What role and responsibilities do the different actors - states, companies - in Internet surveillance have? What can civil society do? What about existing standards, such as the IRP Charter on Internet Rights and Principles?

4)    What lines of action exist: Should the Human Rights Council convene a special session? What role can the High Commissioner for Human Rights play? Which organizations should be activated?

Chair:             Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann (University of Graz, Austria; IRP Coalition)

Speakers:      tbc

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Dr Matthias C. Kettemann, LLM (Harvard)

Institute of International Law and International Relations
University of Graz
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Recent publications:
The Future of Individuals in International Law (2013)<http://www.elevenpub.com/law/catalogus/the-future-of-individuals-in-international-law>,
Grenzen im Völkerrecht (2013, ed.)<http://www.jan-sramek-verlag.at/Buchdetails.455.0.html?buchID=139&cHash=e856a8a762>

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