[governance] Bruce Schneier: The Only Way to Restore Trust in the NSA

[parminder]

Norbert

I am not very sanguine about the possibility of an office/ authority 
taking care of  foreigner’s rights, and also manned by foreigners. (Btw, 
there are foreigners and there are foreigners, Canada for instance being 
much less foreign to the US then Sri Lanka, and I am not even mentioning 
Iran where too human beings happen to reside.) Apart from being 
conceptually difficult, there is no precedent for such kind of  thing. 
On the other hand, there are precendents of an international system 
enforcing international law for all people of the world in all 
countries, that allow themselves to be subject to that international 
system - International criminal court of justice, for instance. 
Therefore, this latter may be the more likely route to go.

If we need a truth and reconciliation commission that Bruce Schneier 
seeks in the article, it needs to be global. US,  and those closely 
allied to it - whether because of residing in certain countries, or 
because of personal persuasion,  should get over this thing about US 
solving the world's problems, and come to terms with interacting with 
the rest of the world on equal terms.

parminder


On Friday 06 September 2013 02:06 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What Schneier is suggesting would go a long way to resolving some of
>> the issues that Snowden raises for US citizens but doesn't seem to
>> address what the NSA has been doing in the rest of the world--the EU,
>> the UN, Mexico, Brazil that we know of now. What can/could/should be
>> done about those and by whom?
>>
>> Bruce Schneier <http://www.theatlantic.com/bruce-schneier/>
> The intelligence agencies of every country need, in addition to
> their being accountable to the people and the political institutions of
> their own country, to be made accountable to the people of the world.
>
> Any country can start this process by institutionalizing such
> accountability, with the goal of making it as trustworthy as possible.
> Schneier's suggestions provide good guidance, with the difference that
> in what I suggest, the goal would be to gain trust among the people
> outside the country. For example, analogous to Schneier's suggestion
> of a “special prosecutor”, the “special prosecutor of violations of the
> /human right to privacy/ of foreigners” should be a foreigner with
> international credibility, with a technical staff that also consists
> of 100% foreigners.
>
> Over time, experience will show how such institutions can be set up so
> that they're effective, and what works less well.
>
> Eventually, minimal requirements for such institutions (that are
> sufficient to achieve effective international protection of the human
> right to privacy) can be distilled into a treaty.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>

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