[Okfn-ca] Fwd: Canadians join nearly 300 organizations and thousands of citizens around the world to call for United Nations and world governments to respect our right to privacy
Diane Mercier
diane.mercier at gmail.com
Sat Nov 30 01:08:49 UTC 2013
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Sujet: Canadians join nearly 300 organizations and thousands of
citizens around the world to call for United Nations and world
governments to respect our right to privacy
Date : Tue, 26 Nov 2013 09:21:04 -0800
De : David Christopher <david at openmedia.ca>
Pour : protect-our-privacy-outreach at googlegroups.com
Morning everyone,
Just a quick note to share a release OpenMedia is issuing this morning,
about how Canadians are joining with nearly 300 organizations from
around the world to call on the UN and world leaders to respect human
rights when it comes to privacy.
Lots of people across the globe have put a lot of work into this - I'd
like to give a special mention to EFF (one of our Privacy Coalition
partners here in Canada) and to Tamir from CIPPIC for their trojan work
on this project.
All the best
David
For Immediate Release
Canadians join nearly 300 organizations and thousands of citizens around
the world to call for United Nations and world governments to respect
our right to privacy
Move comes following confirmation that U.S. spy agencies have been
spying on citizens of allied nations.
November 26, 2013 – Global citizens and hundreds of organizations have
launched an international campaign to rein in government surveillance
and to protect the right to privacy. Today, OpenMedia.ca is joining with
civil society organizations from around the world to launch an
international petition to support the growing global call for
governments to respect human rights
<https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action/openmedia>when it
comes to surveillance activities.
The campaign will rally citizens around the world to endorse the
Necessary and Proportionate: 13 International Principles on the
Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
<http://necessaryandproportionate.org/>. These principles were developed
through months of consultation with technology, privacy, and human
rights experts from around the world. The principles emphasize the human
rights obligations of governments engaged in communications surveillance.
Today’s move comes in the context of shocking revelations about how
government surveillance activities have undermined citizens’ privacy
rights. In recent months we’ve learned how government surveillance
agencies capture our phone calls
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order>,
track our location
<http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention>, peer into
our address books <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25028495>, and analyze
our emails
<http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5121624/intelligence-head-releases-nsa-email-metadata-authorization-order>.
They do this often in secret, without adequate public oversight, and in
violation of our human rights. Most recently it was revealed that the
NSA deliberately infected 50,000 networks
<http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/23/nsa-infected-50000-computer-networks-with-malicious-software/>around
the world with malicious software designed to steal private information.
“Government surveillance of law-abiding citizens is clearly invasive,
expensive, and out of control,” says OpenMedia.ca Executive Director
Steve Anderson. “That’s why we’re working with partners here in Canada
and across the globe to put a stop to illegal spying
<https://openmedia.ca/csec>and to protect our fundamental human right to
privacy <http://ourprivacy.ca/>.”
Mr Anderson continued: “We’re calling on people around the world to
speak up now to protect our privacy rights. We’ll be presenting this
petition to the United Nations and to world governments - so it’s
important that we each take time to show our support
<https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action/openmedia>, and to
spread the word to our friends and family. Here at OpenMedia we know
from experience
<https://openmedia.ca/sites/openmedia.ca/files/infographic_stopspying.jpg>that
when citizens speak up to demand change, it really does make a
difference - we’ll build a pro-privacy momentum decision-makers can’t
ignore.”
The 13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to
Communications Surveillance <http://necessaryandproportionate.org/>make
clear that:
1.
States must recognize that mass surveillance threatens the human
right to privacy, freedom of expression, and association, and they
must place these Principles at the heart of their communications
surveillance legal frameworks.
2.
States must commit to ensuring that advances in technology do not
lead to disproportionate increases in the State’s capacity to
interfere with the private lives of individuals.
3.
Transparency and rigorous adversarial oversight is needed to ensure
changes in surveillance activities benefit from public debate and
judicial scrutiny, this includes effective protections for
whistleblowers.
4.
Just as modern surveillance transcends borders, so must privacy
protections.
Organizations partnering with OpenMedia on this initiative include:
Access, Chaos Computer Club, Center for Internet & Society-India, Center
for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Digitale
Gesellschaft, Digital Courage, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Open
Rights Group, Fundacion Karisma, Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet
Policy & Public Interest Clinic, SHARE Foundation and Privacy
International.
Citizens can show their support for these principles by adding their
name at: https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action/openmedia
Canada’s OurPrivacy.ca coalition can be found at: http://ourprivacy.ca
<http://ourprivacy.ca/>
About OpenMedia.ca
OpenMedia.ca is a network of people and organizations working to
safeguard the possibilities of the open Internet. We work toward
informed and participatory digital policy.
Through campaigns such as StopTheMeter.ca <http://stopthemeter.ca/>and
StopSpying.ca <http://stopspying.ca/>, OpenMedia.ca has engaged over
half-a-million Canadians, and has influenced public policy and federal law.
About OpenMedia.ca’s privacy campaign
OpenMedia.ca led the successful StopSpying.ca
<http://stopspying.ca/>campaign that forced the government to back down
on its plans to introduce a costly, invasive, and warrantless online
spying law (Bill C-30). Nearly 150,000 Canadians took part in the
campaign. To learn more, see this infographic
<https://openmedia.ca/sites/openmedia.ca/files/infographic_stopspying.jpg>.
Earlier this year, OpenMedia.ca launched its Secret Spying
<http://secretspying.ca/>campaign, to demandanswers and immediate action
from the government after it was revealed
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/data-collection-program-got-green-light-from-mackay-in-2011/article12444909/?utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=E-mail:+Newsletters+/+E-Blasts+/+etc.&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links>that
a secretive government agency has been spying on the telephone and
Internet activities of individuals, including law-abiding Canadians.
On October 10, 2013 OpenMedia.ca collaborated with over 35 major
organizations and over a dozen academic experts to form the Protect Our
Privacy Coalition <http://ourprivacy.ca/>, which is the largest
pro-privacy coalition in Canadian history. The Coalition is calling for
effective legal measures to protect the privacy of every resident of
Canada against intrusion by government entities.
OpenMedia.ca and the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) recently
announced
<https://openmedia.ca/news/national-campaign-launched-civil-libertarians-announce-court-challenge-stop-government-spying-canadi>they
will work together to put a stop to illegal government surveillance
against law-abiding Canadians. OpenMedia.ca has launched a national
campaign <https://openmedia.ca/csec>encouraging Canadians to support a
BCCLA legal action which aims to stop illegal spying by challenging the
constitutionality of the government’s warrantless collection of data on
Canadians’ everyday Internet use.
-30-
Contact
David Christopher
Communications Manager, OpenMedia.ca
1-778-232-1858 <tel:1-778-232-1858>
david at openmedia.ca <mailto:david at openmedia.ca>
More Information
*
Five highlights from the Canada-Brazil spying revelations. [Source:
The Globe and Mail
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/five-highlights-from-the-canada-brazil-spying-revelations/article14721506/>]
*
Privacy watchdog on spy agency’s data collection: ‘We want to find
out more’. [Source: The Globe And Mail
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/privacy-watchdog-on-spy-agencys-data-collection-we-want-to-find-out-more/article12459998/>]
*
Canada’s spy agency may have illegally targeted Canadians: watchdog.
[Source: National Post
<http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/21/canadas-spy-agency-may-have-illegally-targeted-canadians-watchdog/>]
*
Inside Canada's top-secret billion-dollar spy palace. [Source: CBC
News
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-canada-s-top-secret-billion-dollar-spy-palace-1.1930322?cmp=rss/>.]
*
Data breach protocols deficient in 9 federal departments, watchdog
finds. - [Source: CBC News
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/data-breach-protocols-deficient-in-9-federal-departments-watchdog-finds-1.1341017>]
*
Lawful Access back on the agenda this Fall? - Michael Geist.
<http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6939/84/>
*
The secretive CSEC agency has a staff of more than 2,000 and a
budget of about $400 million. [Source: CBC News
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/secretive-eavesdropping-agency-pulls-plug-on-public-reporting-1.1275621>]
*
Surveillance expert Ron Deibert on the threat spy agencies pose for
citizens
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/spy-agencies-have-turned-our-digital-lives-inside-out-we-need-to-watch-them/article12455029/>.
*
Internet Law expert Michael Geist on why Canadians should be
concerned about government spying
<http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6869/125/>.
*
Privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says there are significant
concerns about the scope of information that CSEC are reported to
collect. [Source: CBC News
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/privacy-czar-to-probe-canadian-impact-of-u-s-data-program-1.1313162>]
*
In this article
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/canadians-need-proper-debate-about-monitoring-of-phone-and-internet/article12445818/>,
The Globe and Mail describes the revelations about Canadian
government spying as “disturbing and unacceptable”
* This document
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/raw-documents-canadas-top-secret-data-mining-program/article12446852/>,
obtained by The Globe through Access to Information, shows how
Minister MacKay authorized a top secret program to data-mine global
‘metadata’ in 2011.
--
David Christopher
Communications Manager, OpenMedia.ca <http://OpenMedia.ca>
(778) 232 1858
david at openmedia.ca <mailto:david at openmedia.ca>
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